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Author : Josiah Osgood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107029897
A new historical survey that recasts the 'fall of the Roman Republic' as part of the rise of a uniquely successful world state.
Author : Harriet I. Flower
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107032248
This second edition examines all aspects of Roman history, and contains a new introduction, three new chapters and updated bibliographies.
Author : Josiah Osgood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521855822
In April 44 BC the eighteen-year-old Gaius Octavius landed in Italy and launched his take-over of the Roman world. Defeating first Caesar's assassins, then the son of Pompey the Great, and finally Antony and the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, he dismantled the old Republic, took on the new name 'Augustus', and ruled forty years more with his equally remarkable wife Livia. Caesar's Legacy grippingly retells the story of Augustus' rise to power by focusing on how the bloody civil wars which he and his soldiers fought transformed the lives of men and women throughout the Mediterranean world and beyond. During this violent period citizens of Rome and provincials came to accept a new form of government and found ways to celebrate it. Yet they also mourned, in literary masterpieces and stories passed on to their children, the terrible losses they endured throughout the long years of fighting.
Author : Gary D. Farney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521863315
Farney explores how senators from Rome's Republican period manipulated their ethnic identity for political gain.
Author : C. E. W. Steel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780521509930
A comprehensive and authoritative account of one of the greatest and most prolific writers of classical antiquity.
Author : Josiah Osgood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780192859563
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 : Kit Morrell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198755142
Leading Romans in the late republic were more concerned about the problems of their empire than is generally recognized. This book challenges the traditional picture by exploring the attempts made at legal and ethical reform in the period 70-50 BC, while also shedding new light on collaboration between Pompey and Cato, two key arbiters of change.
Author : Josiah Osgood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521881814
A study of the reign of Claudius (AD 41-54), exploring what it can tell us about the developing Roman Empire.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004687189
The adage that an army “marches on its stomach” finds renewed emphasis in this collection of essays. Focusing on military diet and supply from Homer through the Roman Empire, Diet and Logistics in Greek and Roman Warfare explains regional dietary options and reassesses traditional notions of “provisioning” while exploring topics ranging from strategy and subterfuge to trade and terror. Through fresh insights drawn from current research and excavation spanning the Greco-Roman world, contributors confirm how providing food and drink for soldiers was critical to every army’s success and survival. This volume stimulates reevaluation of ancient militaries and encourages new research.
Author : Mary Beard
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 743 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781631491252
New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Foreign Affairs, and Kirkus Reviews Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) Shortlisted for the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) A San Francisco Chronicle Holiday Gift Guide Selection A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection A sweeping, "magisterial" history of the Roman Empire from one of our foremost classicists shows why Rome remains "relevant to people many centuries later" (Atlantic). In SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome "with passion and without technical jargon" and demonstrates how "a slightly shabby Iron Age village" rose to become the "undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean" (Wall Street Journal). Hailed by critics as animating "the grand sweep and the intimate details that bring the distant past vividly to life" (Economist) in a way that makes "your hair stand on end" (Christian Science Monitor) and spanning nearly a thousand years of history, this "highly informative, highly readable" (Dallas Morning News) work examines not just how we think of ancient Rome but challenges the comfortable historical perspectives that have existed for centuries. With its nuanced attention to class, democratic struggles, and the lives of entire groups of people omitted from the historical narrative for centuries, SPQR will to shape our view of Roman history for decades to come.
Author : Hugh Elton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521899314
The Roman Emperor ran the Empire through contentious committee meetings at which civil, military and religious policies were debated.
Author : Nathan Rosenstein,Robert Morstein-Marx
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781444357202
This Companion provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of Roman Republican history as it is currently practiced. Highlights recent developments, including archaeological discoveries, fresh approaches to textual sources, and the opening up of new areas of historical study Retains the drama of the Republic’s rise and fall Emphasizes not just the evidence of texts and physical remains, but also the models and assumptions that scholars bring to these artefacts Looks at the role played by the physical geography and environment of Italy Offers a compact but detailed narrative of military and political developments from the birth of the Roman Republic through to the death of Julius Caesar Discusses current controversies in the field
Author : Vittorio Cotesta
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004464728
Vittorio Cotesta’s The Heavens and the Earth traces the origin of the images of the world typical of the Graeco-Roman, Ancient Chinese and Medieval Islamic civilisations. Each of them had its own peculiar way of understanding the universe, life, death, society, power, humanity and its destiny. The comparative analysis carried out here suggests that they all shared a common human aspiration despite their differences: human being is unique; differences are details which enrich its image. Today, the traditions derived from these civilisations are often in competition and conflict. Reference to a common vision of humanity as a shared universal entity should lead, instead, to a quest for understanding and dialogue.
Author : Peter Temin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691177946
What modern economics can tell us about ancient Rome The quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution. The Roman Market Economy uses the tools of modern economics to show how trade, markets, and the Pax Romana were critical to ancient Rome's prosperity. Peter Temin, one of the world's foremost economic historians, argues that markets dominated the Roman economy. He traces how the Pax Romana encouraged trade around the Mediterranean, and how Roman law promoted commerce and banking. Temin shows that a reasonably vibrant market for wheat extended throughout the empire, and suggests that the Antonine Plague may have been responsible for turning the stable prices of the early empire into the persistent inflation of the late. He vividly describes how various markets operated in Roman times, from commodities and slaves to the buying and selling of land. Applying modern methods for evaluating economic growth to data culled from historical sources, Temin argues that Roman Italy in the second century was as prosperous as the Dutch Republic in its golden age of the seventeenth century. The Roman Market Economy reveals how economics can help us understand how the Roman Empire could have ruled seventy million people and endured for centuries.
Author : Nancy Lorraine Thompson,Philippe De Montebello,John Kent Lydecker,Carlos A. Picón
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art, Roman
ISBN : 9781588392220
A complete introduction to the rich cultural legacy of Rome through the study of Roman art ... It includes a discussion of the relevance of Rome to the modern world, a short historical overview, and descriptions of forty-five works of art in the Roman collection organized in three thematic sections: Power and Authority in Roman Portraiture; Myth, Religion, and the Afterlife; and Daily Life in Ancient Rome. This resource also provides lesson plans and classroom activities."--Publisher website.