Magnus Pius

Author : Kathryn Welch
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910589151

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Magnus Pius by Kathryn Welch Pdf

Sextus Pompeius Magnus Pius, son of Pompey the Great, fits uneasily - or not at all - into the grand narrative of the civil war of 49-31BC. Modern scholars tend to exclude him or mention him without asking what or whom he represented. Ronald Syme, the father of international orthodoxy in this field, famously remarked that Sextus was 'in reality an adventurer' who was 'easily represented as a pirate'. He was wrong. Sextus Pompeius plays havoc with key elements of the accepted narrative. His military success destroys the myth of continuous Caesarian victory. His commitment to rescuing the victims of Triumviral violence belies claims that only the Caesarian side represented clementia and justice. The naval strategy by which he conducted the war demonstrates his commitment to the same cause and ethics as his father and his father's allies. Welch argues that, far from being a 'side-show' or a 'bit player', Sextus Pompeius was integral to the fight for the res publica. She solves the 'problem' by placing him at the centre of the story of Rome's transition from Republic to Empire and so reveals a very different landscape that emerges as a result.

Author : Jonathan Edmondson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748695386

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Augustus by Jonathan Edmondson Pdf

This book presents a selection of the most important scholarship on Augustus and the contribution he made to the development of the Roman state in the early imperial period.

Author : Sara Elise Phang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004453258

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The Marriage of Roman Soldiers (13 B.C. - A.D. 235) by Sara Elise Phang Pdf

In the first and second centuries A.D., Roman soldiers were forbidden legitimate marriage during service: nevertheless, many soldiers formed de facto marriages. This book examines the legal, social, and cultural aspects of the marriage prohibition and soldiers' families. The first section covers the marriage prohibition in Roman literary and legal sources. The second section treats social and legal aspects of the soldiers' families, including a survey of epitaphs, the legal impact of the ban on families, and alternatives to family formation. The final section examines the marriage ban as military policy and its relation to Roman culture. This book will be of interest to scholars of the Roman army, Roman social history, and family law. Students of gender and sexuality in the ancient world will also find it relevant.

Author : William Betham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1795
Category : Chronology, Historical
ISBN : NLS:B000349586

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Genealogical Tables of the Sovereigns of the World by William Betham Pdf

Author : Stefan Weinstock
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Cults
ISBN : 9780198142874

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Divus Julius. - Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1971. XVI, 469 S., 31 Taf. 8° by Stefan Weinstock Pdf

Divus Julius

Author : Georgia L. Irby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350155855

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Using and Conquering the Watery World in Greco-Roman Antiquity by Georgia L. Irby Pdf

This volume considers how Greco-Roman authorities manipulated water on the practical, technological, and political levels. Water was controlled and harnessed with legal oversight and civic infrastructure (e.g., aqueducts). Waterways were 'improved' and made accessible by harbors, canals, and lighthouses. The Mediterranean Sea and Outer Ocean (and numerous rivers) were mastered by navigation for warfare, exploration, settlement, maritime trade, and the exploitation of marine resources (such as fishing). These waterways were also a robust source of propaganda on coins, public monuments, and poetic encomia as governments vied to establish, maintain, or spread their identities and predominance. This first complete study of the ancient scientific and public engagement with water makes a major contribution to classics, geography, hydrology and the history of science alike. In the ancient Mediterranean Basin, water was a powerful tool of human endeavor, employed for industry, trade, hunting and fishing, and as an element in luxurious aesthetic installations (public and private fountains). The relationship was complex and pervasive, touching on every aspect of human life, from mundane acts of collecting water for the household, to private and public issues of comfort and health (latrines, sewers, baths), to the identity of the state writ large.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004524187

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Brill’s Companion to Cassius Dio by Anonim Pdf

This Companion is the first of its kind on the Roman historian Cassius Dio. It introduces the reader to the life and work of one of the most fundamental but previously neglected historians in the Roman historical cannon.

Author : Josiah Osgood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780192859563

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Uncommon Wrath by Josiah Osgood Pdf

A dual biography of Julius Caesar and Cato the Younger that offers a dire warning: republics collapse when personal pride overrides the common good. In Uncommon Wrath, historian Josiah Osgood tells the story of how the political rivalry between Julius Caesar and Marcus Cato precipitated the end of the Roman Republic. As the champions of two dominant but distinct visions for Rome, Caesar and Cato each represented qualities that had made the Republic strong, but their ideological differences entrenched into enmity and mutual fear. The intensity of their collective factions became a tribal divide, hampering their ability to make good decisions and undermining democratic government. The men's toxic polarity meant that despite their shared devotion to the Republic, they pushed it into civil war. Deeply researched and compellingly told, Uncommon Wrath is a groundbreaking biography of two men whose hatred for each other destroyed the world they loved.

Author : Susan Treggiari
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192564658

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Servilia and her Family by Susan Treggiari Pdf

Servilia is often cited as one of the most influential women of the late Roman Republic. Though she was a high-born patrician, her grandfather died disgraced and her controversial father was killed before he could stand for the consulship; she herself married twice, but both husbands were mediocre. Nevertheless, her position in the ruling class still afforded her significant social and political power, and it is likely that she masterminded the distinguished marriages of her one son, Brutus, and her three daughters. During her second marriage she began an affair with Iulius Caesar, which probably lasted for the rest of his life and is further indicative of the force of her charm and her exceptional intelligence. The patchiness of the sources means that a full biography is impossible, though in suggesting connections between the available evidence and the speculative possibilities open to women of Servilia's status this volume aims to offer an insightful reconstruction of her life and position both as a member of the senatorial nobility and within her extended and nuclear family. The best attested period of Servilia's life, for which the chief source is Cicero's letters, follows the murder of Caesar by her son and her son-in-law, Cassius, who were leaders among the crowd of conspirators in the Senate House on the Ides of March in 44 BC. We find her energetically working to protect the assassins' interests, also defending her grandchildren by the Caesarian Lepidus when he was declared a public enemy and his property threatened with confiscation. Exploring the role she played during these turbulent years of the late Republic reveals much about the ways in which Romans of both sexes exerted influence and sought to control outcomes, as well as about the place of women in high society, allowing us to conclude that Servilia wielded her social and political power effectively, though with discretion and within conventional limits.

Author : Anton Powell
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781910589397

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Virgil the Partisan by Anton Powell Pdf

Since its first appearance in 2008, this book has changed the landscape of Virgilian studies. Analysing closely the logic and the literary genres of Virgil's three poems, it politely confronts the modern orthodoxy that Virgil signalled distaste for the methods of his ruler, Octavian-Augustus. It refreshes the study of Virgil's poetry by comparing it with the detail (normally neglected by scholars) of Rome's civil wars after Julius Caesar's death, when Octavian's survival looked highly unlikely. And it argues that Virgil wrote as a passionate - and brave - partisan of Octavian, who - like a good lawyer - confronted his patron's undeniable failings in order to defend.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1170 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UOM:39015020440403

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Notes and Queries by Anonim Pdf

Author : George Crabb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : History
ISBN : MINN:319510016735175

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Universal Historical Dictionary by George Crabb Pdf

Author : J. C. McKeown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0199752788

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A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities by J. C. McKeown Pdf

Here is a whimsical and captivating collection of odd facts, strange beliefs, outlandish opinions, and other highly amusing trivia of the ancient Romans. We tend to think of the Romans as a pragmatic people with a ruthlessly efficient army, an exemplary legal system, and a precise and elegant language. A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities shows that the Romans were equally capable of bizarre superstitions, logic-defying customs, and often hilariously derisive views of their fellow Romans and non-Romans. Classicist J. C. McKeown has organized the entries in this entertaining volume around major themes--The Army, Women, Religion and Superstition, Family Life, Medicine, Slaves, Spectacles--allowing for quick browsing or more deliberate consumption. Among the book's many gems are: ? Romans on urban living: The satirist Juvenal lists "fires, falling buildings, and poets reciting in August as hazards to life in Rome." ? On enhanced interrogation: "If we are obliged to take evidence from an arena-fighter or some other such person, his testimony is not to be believed unless given under torture." (Justinian) ? On dreams: Dreaming of eating books "foretells advantage to teachers, lecturers, and anyone who earns his livelihood from books, but for everyone else it means sudden death" ? On food: "When people unwittingly eat human flesh, served by unscrupulous restaurant owners and other such people, the similarity to pork is often noted." (Galen) ? On marriage: In ancient Rome a marriage could be arranged even when the parties were absent, so long as they knew of the arrangement, "or agreed to it subsequently." ? On health care: Pliny caustically described medical bills as a "down payment on death," and Martial quipped that "Diaulus used to be a doctor, now he's a mortician. He does as a mortician what he did as a doctor." For anyone seeking an inglorious glimpse at the underside of the greatest empire in history, A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities offers endless delights.

Author : Lee L. Brice
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216163527

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Warfare in the Roman Republic by Lee L. Brice Pdf

This easy-to-use reference book covers the most important people, places, events, and technologies of Roman warfare during the republic (400–31 BCE), providing a wealth of reference material and invaluable primary source documents. The study of ancient Rome remains both a high-interest topic and a staple of high school and university curricula, while recent Hollywood movies continue to heighten popular interest in Rome. This multi-format handbook examines warfare in ancient Rome during the republic period, from approximately 400 BCE to 31 BCE. Presenting ready reference, primary source documents, statistical information, and a chronology, the title explore all aspects of conflict during this time period, including key military leaders, pivotal battles and sieges, new weapons and technologies, and the intersections of warfare and society in the ancient world. The reference entries provide detailed snapshots of key people, events, groups, places, weapons systems, and strategies that enable readers to easily understand the critical issues during 400 years of the Roman Republic, while various overview, causes, and consequences essays offer engaging, in-depth coverage of the most important wars. By providing students with in-depth information about how the Roman Army operated, they develop a fuller understanding Roman, ancient, and world history.

Author : Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher : Merriam-Webster
Page : 1844 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0877790175

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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Encyclopedia by Merriam-Webster, Inc Pdf

A comprehensive, one-volume desk reference created in cooperation with Encyclopædia Britannica®. Features more than 25,000 informative and enlightening articles, over 1,250 photographs, and 350 maps, diagrams, and tables. Includes pronunciations.