The World Of Ancient Rome 2 Volumes

Author : James W. Ermatinger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440829086

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The World of Ancient Rome [2 volumes] by James W. Ermatinger Pdf

This study of Ancient Rome offers a fascinating glimpse of what Roman society was like—from fashion, to food, to politics and recreation—gathered from literary works, art, and archaeological remains. While the political history and prominent figures of Ancient Rome are well known, accounts of daily life in that time and place often remain untold. This fascinating encyclopedia explores this period from a social and cultural perspective, digging into the day-to-day activities of how Romans dressed, what they ate, how they worked, and what they did for fun. Drawing from recent archaeological evidence, author James W. Ermatinger explores the everyday lives of Roman citizens of all levels and classes. This book is organized into ten sections: art, economics, family, fashion, food, housing, politics, recreation, religion, and science. Each section contains more than two dozen entries that illuminate such topics as slavery as a social movement; the menus of peasants, slaves, and the elite; and the science and engineering solutions that became harbingers for today's technology. The work contains a selection of primary documents as well as a bibliography of print and Internet resources.

Author : Mary Beard,John North,Simon Price
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521456460

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Religions of Rome: Volume 2, A Sourcebook by Mary Beard,John North,Simon Price Pdf

Volume two reveals the extraordinary diversity of ancient Roman religion. A comprehensive sourcebook, it presents a wide range of documents illustrating religious life in the Roman world - from the foundations of the city in the eighth century BC to the Christian capital more than a thousand years later. Each document is given a full introduction, explanatory notes and bibliography, and acts as a starting point for further discussion. Through paintings, sculptures, coins and inscriptions, as well as literary texts in translation, the book explores the major themes and problems of Roman religion, such as sacrifice, the religious calendar, divination, ritual, and priesthood. Starting from the archaeological traces of the earliest cults of the city, it finishes with a series of texts in which Roman authors themselves reflect on the nature of their own religion, its history, even its funny side. Judaism and Christianity are given full coverage, as important elements in the religious world of the Roman empire.

Author : Anne Leen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 707 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440862892

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All Things Ancient Rome [2 volumes] by Anne Leen Pdf

Through roughly 160 alphabetically arranged reference entries, this book surveys the material culture and social institutions of Ancient Rome. Ancient Rome was one of the great civilizations of antiquity. Honoring the contributions of their cultural forebearers-who included Etruscans, Asians, and Egyptians as well as Greeks-Roman artists, writers, and thinkers freely borrowed where tradition dictated and innovated where personal talent and imagination directed, forging a unique creative experience that formed the basis of Western European artistic, literary, and philosophical production for 2,000 years. While other reference works typically examine battles and politicians, this book focuses on Roman social history and daily life, painting a detailed picture of the material culture and social institutions of Ancient Rome. A timeline highlights key events, while an overview essay surveys the achievements of the Romans. Reference entries provide objective information about art, architecture, literature, commerce, transportation, government, religion, and other topics related to Roman life. Each entry provides cross-references and suggestions for further reading, and some provide sidebars of interesting facts along with excerpts from primary source documents. The book closes with a selected, general bibliography of resources suitable for student research.

Author : James W. Ermatinger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440838095

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The Roman Empire [2 volumes] by James W. Ermatinger Pdf

Covering material from the time of Julius Caesar to the sack of Rome, this topically arranged reference set provides substantive entries on people, cities, government, institutions, military developments, material culture, and other topics related to the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire was one of the greatest and most influential forces of the ancient world, and many of its achievements endure in one form or another to this day. Because of its geographic breadth, cultural diversity, and overall complexity, it is also one of the most difficult organizations to understand. This book focuses on the Roman Empire from the time of Julius Caesar to the sack of Rome. While most references on the Roman world provide a series of alphabetically arranged entries, this work is organized in broad topical chapters on government and politics, administration, individuals, groups and organizations, places, events, military developments, and objects and artifacts. Each section provides 20 to 30 substantive entries along with an overview essay. The work also provides a selection of primary source documents and closes with a bibliography of important print and electronic resources.

Author : Thomas Keightley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Rome
ISBN : OCLC:21847537

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The Illustrated History of Rome and the Roman Empire by Thomas Keightley Pdf

Author : Michael Lovano
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440804212

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All Things Julius Caesar [2 volumes] by Michael Lovano Pdf

Julius Caesar's life and example have fascinated and motivated generations of people for nearly 2,000 years. This book explores the people, places, events, and institutions that helped define arguably the most famous individual in the history of Rome. Far from being "ancient history," Roman history and culture from the time of Julius Caesar and the Roman Empire have surprising parallels with the political strife and societal issues in 21st-century life. Interest and awareness have also been bolstered by recent successful Hollywood films as well as television series that depict Roman history. All Things Julius Caesar: An Encyclopedia of Caesar's World and Legacy provides a unique reference on topics and themes related to the life and times of Julius Caesar. It offers historically accurate information about what he did—and did not—do, and examines his impact on later eras via images and idealized depictions of him popularized in literature and other media up to the present. The approximately 200 entries in this two-volume set are organized alphabetically according to topic or theme—for example, individuals such as Marc Antony, places such as the province of Gaul, events such as Roman elections or battles in the Civil War, and institutions such as Roman classes, slavery, patrons, and clients. The entries cover all the territories of the Roman Empire during Caesar's time, from Britain to Egypt. The set includes primary documents such as excerpts from ancient letters, essays, and biographies and supplements the text with images and maps. The bibliography provides print and electronic resources suitable for high school and college student research as well as further reading for general audiences.

Author : Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci,Dennis P. Kehoe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191090974

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Roman Law and Economics by Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci,Dennis P. Kehoe Pdf

Ancient Rome is the only society in the history of the western world whose legal profession evolved autonomously, distinct and separate from institutions of political and religious power. Roman legal thought has left behind an enduring legacy and exerted enormous influence on the shaping of modern legal frameworks and systems, but its own genesis and context pose their own explanatory problems. The economic analysis of Roman law has enormous untapped potential in this regard: by exploring the intersecting perspectives of legal history, economic history, and the economic analysis of law, the two volumes of Roman Law and Economics are able to offer a uniquely interdisciplinary examination of the origins of Roman legal institutions, their functions, and their evolution over a period of more than 1000 years, in response to changes in the underlying economic activities that those institutions regulated. Volume I explores these legal institutions and organizations in detail, from the constitution of the Roman Republic to the management of business in the Empire, while Volume II covers the concepts of exchange, ownership, and disputes, analysing the detailed workings of credit, property, and slavery, among others. Throughout each volume, contributions from specialists in legal and economic history, law, and legal theory are underpinned by rigorous analysis drawing on modern empirical and theoretical techniques and methodologies borrowed from economics. In demonstrating how these can be fruitfully applied to the study of ancient societies, with due deference to the historical context, Roman Law and Economics opens up a host of new avenues of research for scholars and students in each of these fields and in the social sciences more broadly, offering new ways in which different modes of enquiry can connect with and inform each other.

Author : Mike Duncan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692681663

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The History of Rome by Mike Duncan Pdf

THE ROMAN EMPIRE STANDS as the greatest political achievement in the history of Western civilization. From its humble beginnings as a tiny kingdom in central Italy, Rome grew to envelope the entire Mediterranean until it ruled an empire that stretched from the Atlantic to Syria and from the Sahara to Scotland. Its enduring legacy continues to define the modern world. Mike Duncan chronicled the rise, triumph, and fall of the Roman Empire in his popular podcast series "The History of Rome." Transcripts of the show have been edited and collected here for the first time. Covering episodes 1-46, The History of Rome Volume I opens with the founding of the Roman Kingdom and ends with the breakdown of the Roman Republic. Along the way Rome will steadily grow from local power to regional power to global power. The Romans will triumph over their greatest foreign rivals and then nearly destroy themselves in a series of destructive civil wars. This is the story of the rise of Rome.

Author : Mikhail Ivanovich Rostovt︠s︡ev
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1040850258

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A History of the Ancient World by Mikhail Ivanovich Rostovt︠s︡ev Pdf

Author : Fergus Millar
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807875087

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Rome, the Greek World, and the East by Fergus Millar Pdf

Fergus Millar is one of the most influential contemporary historians of the ancient world. His essays and books, including The Emperor in the Roman World and The Roman Near East, have enriched our understanding of the Greco-Roman world in fundamental ways. In his writings Millar has made the inhabitants of the Roman Empire central to our conception of how the empire functioned. He also has shown how and why Rabbinic Judaism, Christianity, and Islam evolved from within the wider cultural context of the Greco-Roman world. Opening this collection of sixteen essays is a new contribution by Millar in which he defends the continuing significance of the study of Classics and argues for expanding the definition of what constitutes that field. In this volume he also questions the dominant scholarly interpretation of politics in the Roman Republic, arguing that the Roman people, not the Senate, were the sovereign power in Republican Rome. In so doing he sheds new light on the establishment of a new regime by the first Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus.

Author : Mary Beard,John North,Simon Price
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1998-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521316820

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Religions of Rome: Volume 1, A History by Mary Beard,John North,Simon Price Pdf

This book offers a radical new survey of more than a thousand years of religious life at Rome. It sets religion in its full cultural context, between the primitive hamlet of the eighth century BC and the cosmopolitan, multicultural society of the first centuries of the Christian era. The narrative account is structured around a series of broad themes: how to interpret the Romans' own theories of their religious system and its origins; the relationship of religion and the changing politics of Rome; the religious importance of the layout and monuments of the city itself; changing ideas of religious identity and community; religious innovation - and, ultimately, revolution. The companion volume, Religions of Rome: A Sourcebook, sets out a wide range of documents richly illustrating the religious life in the Roman world.

Author : James W. Ermatinger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216168454

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The World of Ancient Rome [2 volumes] by James W. Ermatinger Pdf

This study of Ancient Rome offers a fascinating glimpse of what Roman society was like—from fashion, to food, to politics and recreation—gathered from literary works, art, and archaeological remains. While the political history and prominent figures of Ancient Rome are well known, accounts of daily life in that time and place often remain untold. This fascinating encyclopedia explores this period from a social and cultural perspective, digging into the day-to-day activities of how Romans dressed, what they ate, how they worked, and what they did for fun. Drawing from recent archaeological evidence, author James W. Ermatinger explores the everyday lives of Roman citizens of all levels and classes. This book is organized into ten sections: art, economics, family, fashion, food, housing, politics, recreation, religion, and science. Each section contains more than two dozen entries that illuminate such topics as slavery as a social movement; the menus of peasants, slaves, and the elite; and the science and engineering solutions that became harbingers for today's technology. The work contains a selection of primary documents as well as a bibliography of print and Internet resources.

Author : James W. Ermatinger
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440838088

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The Roman Empire [2 Volumes] by James W. Ermatinger Pdf

34. SIEGE OF JERUSALEM -- 35. SIEGE OF MASADA -- 36. ERUPTION OF MOUNT VESUVIUS -- 37. DOMITIAN AS A GOD -- 38. A FEMALE GLADIATOR -- 39. EDICT OF TOLERATION -- 40. CONSTANTINE AND THE CHI-RHO -- 41. EDICT OF MILAN -- 42. BATTLE OF ADRIANOPLE -- 43. CITY OF ALEXANDRIA -- 44. CITY OF JERUSALEM -- Selected Bibliography -- About the Author -- Index

Author : Susan Wise Bauer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393070897

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The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome by Susan Wise Bauer Pdf

A lively and engaging narrative history showing the common threads in the cultures that gave birth to our own. This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving weight to the characteristics of each country. Susan Wise Bauer provides both sweeping scope and vivid attention to the individual lives that give flesh to abstract assertions about human history. Dozens of maps provide a clear geography of great events, while timelines give the reader an ongoing sense of the passage of years and cultural interconnection. This old-fashioned narrative history employs the methods of “history from beneath”—literature, epic traditions, private letters and accounts—to connect kings and leaders with the lives of those they ruled. The result is an engrossing tapestry of human behavior from which we may draw conclusions about the direction of world events and the causes behind them.

Author : Livy
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 1920 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9788026893059

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The History of Rome (Vol. 1-4) by Livy Pdf

The History of Rome (Books from the Foundation of the City) is a monumental history of ancient Rome, written between 27 and 9 BC by the historian Titus Livius The work covers the period from the legends concerning the arrival of Aeneas and the refugees from the fall of Troy, to the city's founding in 753, the expulsion of the Kings in 509, and down to Livy's own time, during the reign of the emperor Augustus. Volume one comprises the first eight books, covering the legendary founding of Rome (including the landing of Aeneas in Italy and the founding of the city by Romulus), the period of the kings, the early republic down to its conquest by the Gauls in 390 BC, and the roman wars with the Aequi, Volsci, Etruscans, and Samnites.