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Author : Shadi Bartsch,Kirk Freudenburg,Cedric Littlewood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107052208
A lively and accessible guide to the rich literary, philosophical and artistic achievements of the notorious age of Nero.
Author : Noel Lenski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139826884
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine offers students a comprehensive one-volume survey of this pivotal emperor and his times. Richly illustrated and designed as a readable survey accessible to all audiences, it also achieves a level of scholarly sophistication and a freshness of interpretation that will be welcomed by the experts. The volume is divided into five sections that examine political history, religion, social and economic history, art, and foreign relations during the reign of Constantine, who steered the Roman Empire on a course parallel with his own personal development. Each chapter examines the intimate interplay between emperor and empire, and between a powerful personality and his world. Collectively, they show how both were mutually affected in ways that shaped the world of Late Antiquity and even affect our own world today.
Author : Shadi Bartsch,Alessandro Schiesaro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107035058
This Companion examines the complete works of Seneca in context and establishes the importance of his legacy in Western thought.
Author : Emma Buckley,Martin Dinter
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118316535
An authoritative overview and helpful resource for students and scholars of Roman history and Latin literature during the reign of Nero. The first book of its kind to treat this era, which has gained in popularity in recent years Makes much important research available in English for the first time Features a balance of new research with established critical lines Offers an unusual breadth and range of material, including substantial treatments of politics, administration, the imperial court, art, archaeology, literature and reception studies Includes a mix of established scholars and groundbreaking new voices Includes detailed maps and illustrations
Author : Karl Galinsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Rome
ISBN : 1139000837
"This text captures the dynamics and richness of this era by examining important aspects of political and social history, religion, literature, and art and architecture."--[Source inconnue].
Author : Paul Erdkamp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521896290
Rome was the largest city in the ancient world. As the capital of the Roman Empire, it was clearly an exceptional city in terms of size, diversity and complexity. While the Colosseum, imperial palaces and Pantheon are among its most famous features, this volume explores Rome primarily as a city in which many thousands of men and women were born, lived and died. The thirty-one chapters by leading historians, classicists and archaeologists discuss issues ranging from the monuments and the games to the food and water supply, from policing and riots to domestic housing, from death and disease to pagan cults and the impact of Christianity. Richly illustrated, the volume introduces groundbreaking new research against the background of current debates and is designed as a readable survey accessible in particular to undergraduates and non-specialists.
Author : Sarah Bassett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108498180
The collected essays explore late antique and Byzantine Constantinople in matters sacred, political, cultural, and commercial.
Author : Jenifer Neils,Dylan K. Rogers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108484558
This book is a comprehensive introduction to ancient Athens, its topography, monuments, inhabitants, cultural institutions, religious rituals, and politics. Drawing from the newest scholarship on the city, this volume examines how the city was planned, how it functioned, and how it was transformed from a democratic polis into a Roman urbs.
Author : Sitta von Reden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108278508
This is the most comprehensive introduction to the ancient Greek economy available in English. A team of specialists provides in non-technical language cutting edge accounts of a wide range of key themes in economic history, explaining how ancient Greek economies functioned and changed, and why they were stable and successful over long periods of time. Through its wide geographical perspective, reaching from the Aegean and the Black Sea to the Near East and Egypt under Greek rule, it reflects on how economic behaviour and institutions were formed and transformed under different political, ecological and social circumstances, and how they interacted and communicated over large distances. With chapters on climate and the environment, market development, inequality and growth, it encourages comparison with other periods of time and cultures, thus being of interest not just to ancient historians but also to readers concerned with economic cultures and global economic issues.
Author : Harriet I. Flower
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 51,7 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 : J. F. Drinkwater
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108472647
Nero was negligent, not tyrannical. This allowed others to rule, remarkably well, in his name until his negligence became insupportable.
Author : Andrew Feldherr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827690
No field of Latin literature has been more transformed over the last couple of decades than that of the Roman historians. Narratology, a new receptiveness to intertextuality, and a re-thinking of the relationship between literature and its political contexts have ensured that the works of historians such as Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus will be read as texts with the same interest and sophistication as they are used as sources. In this book, topics central to the entire tradition, such as conceptions of time, characterization, and depictions of politics and the gods, are treated synoptically, while other essays highlight the works of less familiar historians, such as Curtius Rufus and Ammianus Marcellinus. A final section focuses on the rich reception history of Roman historiography, from the ancient Greek historians of Rome to the twentieth century. An appendix offers a chronological list of the ancient historians of Rome.
Author : Christopher Kelly,Christopher (University Lecturer in Classics and Director of Studies in Classics Kelly, Cambridge University)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192803917
The Roman Empire was a remarkable achievement. With a population of sixty million people, it encircled the Mediterranean and stretched from northern England to North Africa and Syria. This Very Short Introduction covers the history of the empire at its height, looking at its people, religions and social structures. It explains how it deployed violence, 'romanisation', and tactical power to develop an astonishingly uniform culture from Rome to its furthest outreaches.
Author : Laura Zientek,Mark Thorne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781350097421
These new essays comprise the first collective study of Lucan and his epic poem that focuses specifically on points of contact between his text and the cultural, literary, and historical environments in which he lived and wrote. The Bellum Civile, Lucan's poetic narrative of the monumental civil war between Julius Caesar and Pompey Magnus, explores the violent foundations of the Roman principate and the Julio-Claudian dynasty. The poem, composed more than a century later during the reign of Nero, thus recalls the past while being very much a product of its time. This volume offers innovative readings that seek to interpret Lucan's epic in terms of the contemporary politics, philosophy, literature, rhetoric, geography, and cultural memory of the author's lifetime. In doing so, these studies illuminate how approaching Lucan and his text in light of their contemporary environments enriches our understanding of author, text, and context individually and in conversation with each other.
Author : A. J. Woodman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139828208
Tacitus is universally recognised as ancient Rome's greatest writer of history, and his account of the Roman Empire in the first century AD has been fundamental in shaping the modern perception of Rome and its emperors. This Companion provides a new, up-to-date and authoritative assessment of his work and influence which will be invaluable for students and non-specialists as well as of interest to established scholars in the field. First situating Tacitus within the tradition of Roman historical writing and his own contemporary society, it goes on to analyse each of his individual works and then discuss key topics such as his distinctive authorial voice and his views of history and freedom. It ends by tracing Tacitus' reception, beginning with the transition from manuscript to printed editions, describing his influence on political thought in early modern Europe, and concluding with his significance in the twentieth century.