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Author : Susan P. Mattern
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520236837
This text draws on the literature, composed by the elite who conducted Roman foreign affairs. It shows that concepts of honour, competition for status and revenge drove Roman foreign policy.
Author : K. Loewenstein
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401024006
Next to the Bible, Shakespeare, the French revolution and Napoleon, ancient Rome is one of the most plowed-through fields of historical experience. One of the truly great periods of history, Rome, over the centuries, deservedly has attracted the passionate attention of historians, philologists and, more recently, archeologists. Since Roman law constituted the source of the legal life of most of Western Europe, the legal profession had a legitimate interest. Veritable libraries have been built around the history of Rome. In the past confmed mostly to Italian, German, and French scholars the fascination with things Roman by now has spread to other civilized nations in cluding the Anglo-Saxon. Among the contributors to our knowledge of ancient Rome are some of the great minds in history and law. Our bibliography - selective, as neces sarily it has to be - records outstanding generalists as well as some of the numerous specialists that were helpful for our undertaking. Why, then, another study of the Roman political civilization and one that, at least measured by volume and effort, is not altogether insubstantial? And why, has to be added, one presented by an author who, whatever his reputation in other fields, ostensibly is an outsider of the classical discipline? These are legitimate questions that should be honestly answered. By training and avocation the author is a constitutional lawyer or, rather, a political scientist primarily interested in the operation of governmental institutions.
Author : Naphtali Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1120853437
Author : Kurt A. Raaflaub,Mark Toher
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520914513
Representing five major areas of Augustan scholarship—historiography, poetry, art, religion, and politics—the nineteen contributors to this volume bring us closer to a balanced, up-to-date account of Augustus and his principate.
Author : Charles Goldberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000299007
This volume explores the role that republican political participation played in forging elite Roman masculinity. It situates familiarly "manly" traits like militarism, aggressive sexuality, and the pursuit of power within a political system based on power sharing and cooperation. In deliberations in the Senate, at social gatherings, and on military campaign, displays of consensus with other men greased the wheels of social discourse and built elite comradery. Through literary sources and inscriptions that offer censorious or affirmative appraisal of male behavior from the Middle and Late Republic (ca. 300–31 BCE) to the Principate or Early Empire (ca. 100 CE), this book shows how the vir bonus, or "good man," the Roman persona of male aristocratic excellence, modulated imperatives for personal distinction and military and sexual violence with political cooperation and moral exemplarity. While the advent of one-man rule in the Empire transformed political power relations, ideals forged in the Republic adapted to the new climate and provided a coherent model of masculinity for emperor and senator alike. Scholars often paint a picture of Republic and Principate as distinct landscapes, but enduring ideals of male self-fashioning constitute an important continuity. Roman Masculinity and Politics from Republic to Empire provides a fascinating insight into the intertwined nature of masculinity and political power for anyone interested in Roman political and social history, and those working on gender in the ancient world more broadly.
Author : Walter Kirkpatrick Lacey
Publisher : Arca Classical and Medieval Te
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015040338256
Updating and enlarging on a lifetime's work on Augustus and his `constitutions' Lacey discusses the process of gradual encroachment whereby Augustus unobtrusively and with minimal opposition accumulated more and more power, whilst outwardly retaining the facade of a republic. Chapters examine the constitutional settlements of 27 and 23 BC, to which Lacey attributes less importance than most, the nature of the role given to Agrippa, the evolution of tribunician power, his religious prominence and dynastic arrangements. This all adds up to a very thorough and incisive study of how under Augustus the republic finally died and the principate was born.
Author : Karl Galinsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107494565
The age of Augustus, commonly dated to 30 BC – AD 14, was a pivotal period in world history. A time of tremendous change in Rome, Italy, and throughout the Mediterranean world, many developments were underway when Augustus took charge and a recurring theme is the role that he played in shaping their direction. The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus captures the dynamics and richness of this era by examining important aspects of political and social history, religion, literature, and art and architecture. The sixteen essays, written by distinguished specialists from the United States and Europe, explore the multi-faceted character of the period and the interconnections between social, religious, political, literary, and artistic developments. Introducing the reader to many of the central issues of the Age of Augustus, the essays also break new ground and will stimulate further research and discussion.
Author : Bernard William Henderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015025889562
Author : Josiah Osgood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : Caillan Davenport
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1009376225
In the Roman social hierarchy, the equestrian order stood second only to the senatorial aristocracy in status and prestige. Throughout more than a thousand years of Roman history, equestrians played prominent roles in the Roman government, army, and society as cavalrymen, officers, businessmen, tax collectors, jurors, administrators, and writers. This book offers the first comprehensive history of the equestrian order, covering the period from the eighth century BC to the fifth century AD. It examines how Rome's cavalry became the equestrian order during the Republican period, before analysing how imperial rule transformed the role of equestrians in government. Using literary and documentary evidence, the book demonstrates the vital social function which the equestrian order filled in the Roman world, and how this was shaped by the transformation of the Roman state itself.
Author : A. H. J. Greenidge
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4064066149420
The book tells the history of The Roman Empire from the times of the tribunate of Tiberius Gracchus to the second consulship of Marius. The author provides his personal analysis of the historical era and, at the same time, gives a lot of details about different important aspects like the business life or Rome, foreign trade, agriculture, the reforms of Tiberius Gracchus, the tribunate of Caius Gracchus, the colonization of Africa and the reign of Marius.
Author : Mason Hammond
Publisher : Russell & Russell Publishers
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033733598
Author : Nic Fields
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1846033861
The Imperial Army established by Augustus drew heavily on the nomenclature and traditions of the late Roman Republic, but was revolutionary in its design. He decided to meet all the military needs of the Empire from a standing, professional army. Military service became a career, and pay and service conditions were established that took account of the categories of soldier in the army: the Praetorian Guard, the citizen legionary troops, and the non-citizen auxiliaries. Enlistment was for 25 years (16 in the Guard), and men were sometimes retained even longer. The loyalty of the new army was to the emperor as commander-in-chief, and not to either the Senate or the People of Rome. Imperial legions became permanent units with their own numbers and titles and many were to remain in existence for centuries to come. Likewise, the auxiliary units (auxilia) of the army were completely reorganized and given regular status. Trained to the same standards of discipline as the legions, the men were long-serving professional soldiers like the legionaries and served in units that were equally permanent. Drawn from a wide range of peoples throughout the provinces, especially on the fringes of the Empire, the auxilia were non-citizens and would receive Roman citizenship upon completion of their twenty-five years under arms.
Author : Karl-J. Hölkeskamp
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691140384
In recent decades, scholars have argued that the Roman Republic's political culture was essentially democratic in nature, stressing the central role of the 'sovereign' people and their assemblies. Karl-J. Hölkeskamp challenges this view in Reconstructing the Roman Republic, warning that this scholarly trend threatens to become the new orthodoxy, and defending the position that the republic was in fact a uniquely Roman, dominantly oligarchic and aristocratic political form. Hölkeskamp offers a comprehensive, in-depth survey of the modern debate surrounding the Roman Republic. He looks at the ongoing controversy first triggered in the 1980s when the 'oligarchic orthodoxy' was called into question by the idea that the republic's political culture was a form of Greek-style democracy, and he considers the important theoretical and methodological advances of the 1960s and 1970s that prepared the ground for this debate. Hölkeskamp renews and refines the 'elitist' view, showing how the republic was a unique kind of premodern city-state political culture shaped by a specific variant of a political class. He covers a host of fascinating topics, including the Roman value system; the senatorial aristocracy; competition in war and politics within this aristocracy; and the symbolic language of public rituals and ceremonies, monuments, architecture, and urban topography. Certain to inspire continued debate, Reconstructing the Roman Republic offers fresh approaches to the study of the republic while attesting to the field's enduring vitality.
Author : John W. Boyer,Walter Emil Kaegi,Peter White,Julius Kirshner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 0226069370
The University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization (nine volumes) makes available to students and teachers a unique selection of primary documents, many in new translations. These readings, prepared for the highly praised Western civilization sequence at the University of Chicago, were chosen by an outstanding group of scholars whose experience teaching that course spans almost four decades. Each volume includes rarely anthologized selections as well as standard, more familiar texts; a bibliography of recommended parallel readings; and introductions providing background for the selections. Beginning with Periclean Athens and concluding with twentieth-century Europe, these source materials enable teachers and students to explore a variety of critical approaches to important events and themes in Western history. Individual volumes provide essential background reading for courses covering specific eras and periods. The complete nine-volume series is ideal for general courses in history and Western civilization sequences.