Trajan And Plotina

Author : David Corson
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595280445

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Trajan and Plotina by David Corson Pdf

Romans described the emperor Trajan as the 'perfect prince'. What made him so remarkable? This novel is a narrative historical account of the lives of the emperor and his consort. It describes the extraordinary events that brought the couple to power and the timeless achievements of that power. The book traces Trajan's early life as a soldier, through his marriage, service to Domitian and rise to influence, and looks at Plotina's early life in Provençe, her philosophical interests, and the events that allowed her to become a partner in greatness. It includes a unique recreation of Trajan's lost 'Dacian Commentaries' which cover the Balkan wars that Rome fought to bring Romania inside the Empire. And it traces the military expeditions that helped fulfill Trajan's expansionist dreams, reaching across Iraq, Iran, Arabia, and up into Southern Russia. All this is presented inside a dynamic narrative account that engages the reader.

Author : Nicholas Jackson
Publisher : Greenhill Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781784387105

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Trajan by Nicholas Jackson Pdf

Until the publication of this captivating biography, no such volume on Trajan’s life has been tailored to the general reader. The unique book illuminates a neglected period of ancient Roman history, featuring a comprehensive array of maps, illustrations, and photographs to help orientate and bring the text to life. Trajan rose from fairly obscure beginnings to become the emperor of Rome. He was born in Italica, an Italic settlement close to modern Seville in present-day Spain, and is the first Roman Emperor to be born outside of Rome. His remarkable rise from officer to general and then to emperor in just over 20 years reveals a shrewd politician who maintained absolute power. Trajan’s success in taking the Roman Empire to its greatest expanse is highlighted in this gripping biography. Trajan’s military campaigns allowed the Roman Empire to attain its greatest military, political and cultural achievements. The book draws on novel theories, recent evidence and meticulous research, including field visits to Italy, Spain, Germany and Romania to ensure accurate, vivid writing that transports the reader to Trajan’s territory.

Author : Barry Strauss
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781451668841

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Ten Caesars by Barry Strauss Pdf

Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers “an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire…much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal)—a summation of three and a half centuries of the Roman Empire as seen through the lives of ten of the most important emperors, from Augustus to Constantine. In this essential and “enlightening” (The New York Times Book Review) work, Barry Strauss tells the story of the Roman Empire from rise to reinvention, from Augustus, who founded the empire, to Constantine, who made it Christian and moved the capital east to Constantinople. During these centuries Rome gained in splendor and territory, then lost both. By the fourth century, the time of Constantine, the Roman Empire had changed so dramatically in geography, ethnicity, religion, and culture that it would have been virtually unrecognizable to Augustus. Rome’s legacy remains today in so many ways, from language, law, and architecture to the seat of the Roman Catholic Church. Strauss examines this enduring heritage through the lives of the men who shaped it: Augustus, Tiberius, Nero, Vespasian, Trajan, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, Septimius Severus, Diocletian, and Constantine. Over the ages, they learned to maintain the family business—the government of an empire—by adapting when necessary and always persevering no matter the cost. Ten Caesars is a “captivating narrative that breathes new life into a host of transformative figures” (Publishers Weekly). This “superb summation of four centuries of Roman history, a masterpiece of compression, confirms Barry Strauss as the foremost academic classicist writing for the general reader today” (The Wall Street Journal).

Author : Susan E. Wood
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9004119507

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Imperial Women by Susan E. Wood Pdf

Portraits of women -- on coins, public monuments, and private luxury objects --became an increasingly familiar sight throughout the Roman Empire. These portraits, always freighted with political significance, communicated social messages about the appropriate roles, behavior, and self-presentation of women. This book traces the emergence and development of the public female portrait, from Octavia, the first Roman woman to be represented on coinage, to the formidable and ambitious Agrippina the Younger, whose assassination demonstrated to later women the limits of official power they could demand.

Author : Jo-Ann Shelton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780415374286

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The Women of Pliny's Letters by Jo-Ann Shelton Pdf

The large collection of letters by Pliny the Younger includes a number of women among its addressees, and Pliny also gives us plentiful information about many women of his acquaintance. This book brings together this material to build up a portrait of a peer-group of women in their social setting.

Author : Jasper Burns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134131846

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Great Women of Imperial Rome by Jasper Burns Pdf

Drawing from a broad range of documentation this book vividly characterizes eleven royal women who are brought visually to life through photographs of over 300 ancient coins and through the author's own illustrations. Spanning the period from the death of Julius Caesar in 44BC to the third century AD, and with an epilogue surveying empresses of later eras, the author's compelling biographies reveal their remarkable contributions towards the legacy of Imperial Rome. Examining the wives, daughters, sisters and mothers of emperors, the study includes: a pregnant Roman princess who saves a Roman army through an act of personal heroism three third-century empresses who rule the most powerful state on Earth, presiding over unprecedented social and political reform an empress, though revered by her husband, is immortalized in history for infidelity and corruption by students of her greatest enemy. Jasper Burns paints portraits of these exceptional women that are colourful, sympathetic, and above all profoundly human. This book will be highly valuable to numismatists, students and scholars of Roman history or women’s studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004537460

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Tradition and Power in the Roman Empire by Anonim Pdf

This volume focuses on the interface between tradition and the shifting configuration of power structures in the Roman Empire. By examining various time periods and locales, its contributions show the Empire as a world filed with a wide variety of cultural, political, social, and religious traditions. These traditions were constantly played upon in the processes of negotiation and (re)definition that made the empire into a superstructure whose coherence was embedded in its diversity.

Author : John Yonge Akerman,Sir John Evans,William Sandys Wright Vaux,Frederic William Madden,Barclay Vincent Head,Herbert Appold Grueber,Edward James Rapson,Oliver Codrington,Sir George Francis Hill,George Cyril Brooke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Numismatics
ISBN : CHI:19455931

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The Numismatic Chronicle by John Yonge Akerman,Sir John Evans,William Sandys Wright Vaux,Frederic William Madden,Barclay Vincent Head,Herbert Appold Grueber,Edward James Rapson,Oliver Codrington,Sir George Francis Hill,George Cyril Brooke Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Numismatics
ISBN : NYPL:33433066588793

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The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10741579

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The numismatic chronicle by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Numismatic chronicle
ISBN : UCAL:$B461389

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The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Numismatic Society by Anonim Pdf

Author : T. Corey Brennan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190250997

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Sabina Augusta by T. Corey Brennan Pdf

"Sabina Augusta: an Imperial Journey synthesizes the textual and (massive) material evidence on the empress Sabina (born ca. 85--died ca. 137). The book traces the development of Sabina's partnership with her husband, the emperor Hadrian (reigned 117-138), and shows the vital importance of the empress for Hadrian's own aspirations" --

Author : David L. Vagi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Coinage
ISBN : 1579583164

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Coinage and History of the Roman Empire, C. 82 B.C.--A.D. 480: History by David L. Vagi Pdf

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : David Vagi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135971250

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Coinage and History of the Roman Empire by David Vagi Pdf

First Published in 2001. Coinage and History of the Roman Empire is an invaluable study in the fields of Roman history and numismatics. Current scholarship is invoked throughout as a corrective to other published sources: hundreds f significat updates in chronology, historical perspective and numismatic attribution make this book indispensable. The book consists of two volumes: volume one, History; volume two: Coinage. The 550-year period covered- The Imperatorial Age: c. 82-27 B.C; and The Roman Empire: 27 B.C to A.D 480- is divided into twelve epochs, each prefaced with an overview of the period's social and historical developments. Coinage and History of the Roman Empire is fully illustrated (including family trees, tables, maps) and includes an extensive bibliography as well alphabetical and chronological indexes.

Author : Richard Abdy,Peter Mittag
Publisher : Spink Books
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1-01-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781912667550

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Roman Imperial Coinage II.3 by Richard Abdy,Peter Mittag Pdf

The standard reference work for Roman Imperial coinage of Hadrian now occupies a fully revised and greatly expanded standalone volume to cover the last epoch of what many consider the apogee of Roman coinage – begun with Nero’s reform of AD 64 when great effort was taken over their iconographic designs. It is also a long overdue attempt to reconcile our increased 21st century understanding of this otherwise lightly documented reign of one of the key figures in Roman history. The rich symbolism of the reign is also expressed in prodigious issues of Hadrian’s medallic pieces, many covered in RIC for the first time.