Ushering In A New Republic

Author : Trevor S. Luke
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472052226

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Ushering in a New Republic by Trevor S. Luke Pdf

The ancient Romans are well known for their love of the pageantry of power. No single ceremony better attests to this characteristic than the triumph, which celebrated the victory of a Roman commander through a grand ceremonial entrance into the city that ended in rites performed to Rome’s chief tutelary deity, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, on the Capitoline hill. The triumph, however, was only one form of ceremonial arrival at the city, and Jupiter was not the only god to whom vows were made and subsequently fulfilled at the end of a successful assignment. Ushering in a New Republic expands our view beyond a narrow focus on the triumph to look at the creative ways in which the great figures of Rome in the first century BCE (men such as Sulla, Caesar, Augustus, and others) crafted theological performances and narratives both in and around their departures from Rome and then returned to cast themselves in the role of divinely supported saviors of a faltering Republic. Trevor S. Luke tackles some of the major issues of the history of the Late Republic and the transition to the empire in a novel way. Taking the perspective that Roman elites, even at this late date, took their own religion seriously as a way to communicate meaning to their fellow Romans, the volume reinterprets some of the most famous events of that period in order to highlight what Sulla, Caesar, and figures of similar stature did to make a religious argument or defense for their actions. This exploration will be of interest to scholars of religion, political science, sociology, classics, and ancient history and to the general history enthusiast. While many people are aware of the important battles and major thinkers of this period of Roman history, the story of its theological discourse and competition is unfolded here for the first time.

Author : Katharina Volk
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691253954

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The Roman Republic of Letters by Katharina Volk Pdf

An intellectual history of the late Roman Republic—and the senators who fought both scholarly debates and a civil war In The Roman Republic of Letters, Katharina Volk explores a fascinating chapter of intellectual history, focusing on the literary senators of the mid-first century BCE who came to blows over the future of Rome even as they debated philosophy, history, political theory, linguistics, science, and religion. It was a period of intense cultural flourishing and extreme political unrest—and the agents of each were very often the same people. Members of the senatorial class, including Cicero, Caesar, Brutus, Cassius, Cato, Varro, and Nigidius Figulus, contributed greatly to the development of Roman scholarship and engaged in a lively and often polemical exchange with one another. These men were also crucially involved in the tumultuous events that brought about the collapse of the Republic, and they ended up on opposite sides in the civil war between Caesar and Pompey in the early 40s. Volk treats the intellectual and political activities of these “senator scholars” as two sides of the same coin, exploring how scholarship and statesmanship mutually informed one another—and how the acquisition, organization, and diffusion of knowledge was bound up with the question of what it meant to be a Roman in a time of crisis. By revealing how first-century Rome’s remarkable “republic of letters” was connected to the fight over the actual res publica, Volk’s riveting account captures the complexity of this pivotal period.

Author : Charles Goldberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000299007

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Roman Masculinity and Politics from Republic to Empire by Charles Goldberg Pdf

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 : Jakub Filonik,Christine Plastow,Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000847833

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Citizenship in Antiquity by Jakub Filonik,Christine Plastow,Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz Pdf

Citizenship in Antiquity brings together scholars working on the multifaceted and changing dimensions of citizenship in the ancient Mediterranean, from the second millennium BCE to the first millennium CE, adopting a multidisciplinary and comparative perspective. The chapters in this volume cover numerous periods and regions – from the Ancient Near East, through the Greek and Hellenistic worlds and pre-Roman North Africa, to the Roman Empire and its continuations, and with excursuses to modernity. The contributors to this book adopt various contemporary theories, demonstrating the manifold meanings and ways of defining the concept and practices of citizenship and belonging in ancient societies and, in turn, of non-citizenship and non-belonging. Whether citizenship was defined by territorial belonging or blood descent, by privileged or exclusive access to resources or participation in communal decision-making, or by a sense of group belonging, such identifications were also open to discursive redefinitions and manipulation. Citizenship and belonging, as well as non-citizenship and non-belonging, had many shades and degrees; citizenship could be bought or faked, or even removed. By casting light on different areas of the Mediterranean over the course of antiquity, the volume seeks to explore this multi-layered notion of citizenship and contribute to an ongoing and relevant discourse. Citizenship in Antiquity offers a wide-ranging, comprehensive collection suitable for students and scholars of citizenship, politics, and society in the ancient Mediterranean world, as well as those working on citizenship throughout history interested in taking a comparative approach.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004682702

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Reading Greek and Hellenistic-Roman Spolia by Anonim Pdf

Plundering and taking home precious objects from a defeated enemy was a widespread activity in the Greek and Hellenistic-Roman world. In this volume literary critics, historians and archaeologists join forces in investigating this phenomenon in terms of appropriation and cultural change. In-depth interpretations of famous ancient spoliations, like that of the Greeks after Plataea or the Romans after the capture of Jerusalem, reveal a fascinating paradox: while the material record shows an eager incorporation of new objects, the texts display abhorrence of the negative effects they were thought to bring along. As this volume demonstrates, both reactions testify to the crucial innovative impact objects from abroad may have.

Author : Craige B. Champion
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400885152

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The Peace of the Gods by Craige B. Champion Pdf

The Peace of the Gods takes a new approach to the study of Roman elites' religious practices and beliefs, using current theories in psychology, sociology, and anthropology, as well as cultural and literary studies. Craige Champion focuses on what the elites of the Middle Republic (ca. 250–ca. 100 BCE) actually did in the religious sphere, rather than what they merely said or wrote about it, in order to provide a more nuanced and satisfying historical reconstruction of what their religion may have meant to those who commanded the Roman world and its imperial subjects. The book examines the nature and structure of the major priesthoods in Rome itself, Roman military commanders' religious behaviors in dangerous field conditions, and the state religion's acceptance or rejection of new cults and rituals in response to external events that benefited or threatened the Republic. According to a once-dominant but now-outmoded interpretation of Roman religion that goes back to the ancient Greek historian Polybius, the elites didn't believe in their gods but merely used religion to control the masses. Using that interpretation as a counterfactual lens, Champion argues instead that Roman elites sincerely tried to maintain Rome's good fortune through a pax deorum or "peace of the gods." The result offers rich new insights into the role of religion in elite Roman life.

Author : Jagdish N. Bhagwati
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262522659

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A Stream of Windows by Jagdish N. Bhagwati Pdf

Lively, sometimes contrary policy writings by one of our leading economists.

Author : James R. Edwards
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493420216

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From Christ to Christianity by James R. Edwards Pdf

How did the movement founded by Jesus transform more in the first seventy-five years after his death than it has in the two thousand years since? This book tells the story of how the Christian movement, which began as relatively informal, rural, Hebrew and Aramaic speaking, and closely anchored to the Jewish synagogue, became primarily urban, Greek speaking, and gentile by the early second century, spreading through the Greco-Roman world with a mission agenda and church organization distinct from its roots in Jewish Galilee. It also shows how the early church's witness can encourage the church today.

Author : Cheong Wa Dae‚ Office of the President
Publisher : Cheong Wa Dae
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9788973756179

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SELECTED SPEECHES by Cheong Wa Dae‚ Office of the President Pdf

Among the many facets noted since the launch of the Moon Jae-in Administration‚ presidential speeches have captured considerable public attention and won over hearts. This compilation of selected speeches contains addresses and remarks made by President Moon at official events and major conferences that took place after he took office on May 10‚ 2017‚ up to May 10‚ 2018. During the year following his inauguration‚ President Moon has engaged in vibrant communication with the public on 286 occasions through speeches at major events and remarks at closed meetings as well as open messages. Among these addresses and remarks‚ 33 of particular interest to international media and foreign nationals have been selected‚ translated into English and bound here. The book reflects the President’s commitment to communicating and sharing even more messages with the foreign press and international opinion leaders more actively‚ beyond the language barrier. The achievements of the Moon Jae-in Administration over the past year were made possible thanks to the people’s unwavering support and encouragement‚ which was facilitated by President Moon’s ceaseless efforts to communicate with them. Furthermore‚ the international community's endorsement and interest is also vital to ensure that the President's management of state affairs and diplomatic initiatives reap greater success. I hope that this collection of speeches provides you with a clear understanding of the Moon Jae-in Administration’s first year. I look forward to you grasping hands with the Administration so that its objectives won’t get lost in the remaining four years. Thank you very much. July 2018 Im Jong-seok Chief of Staff to the President

Author : John Mukum Mbaku,Julius O. Ihonvbere
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429835759

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Multiparty Democracy and Political Change by John Mukum Mbaku,Julius O. Ihonvbere Pdf

First published in 1998, This book is written by seasoned scholars of African Studies and it intended to make a significant contribution to the debate on democracy and democratization in the continent. It contains a rich mixture of analytical ideas and views on the transition to accountable, participatory, and democratic governance structures in Africa. It provides both students of African political economy and policymakers in the continent and in-depth analysis of the post-independence experience of African countries with institutional reforms. Specifically, it looks at the struggles of Africans, since independence, to provide themselves with more appropriate and viable governance structures and economic systems that enhance the ability to entrepreneurs to create wealth. The Book breaks new ground in that it places significant emphasis on the reconstruction of the neo-colonial state as an important first step to a successful transition to democratic and more accountable governance structures.

Author : Clara Cornelia Devor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89085972354

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The New Republic a Liberal "Journal of Opinion" 1914-1920 by Clara Cornelia Devor Pdf

Author : Antony Augoustakis,Emma Buckley,Claire Stocks
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487532260

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Fides in Flavian Literature by Antony Augoustakis,Emma Buckley,Claire Stocks Pdf

Fides in Flavian Literature explores the ideology of "good faith" (fides) during the time of the emperors Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian (69–96 CE), the new imperial dynasty that gained power in the wake of the civil wars of the period. The contributors to this volume consider the significance and semantic range of this Roman value in works that deal in myth, contemporary poetry, and history in both prose and verse. Though it does not claim to offer the comprehensive "last word" on fides in Flavian Rome, the book aims to show that fides in this period was subjected to a particularly striking and special brand of contestation and reconceptualization, used to interrogate the broad cultural changes and anxieties of the Flavian period as well as connect to a republican and imperial past. The editors argue that fides was both a vehicle for reconciliation and a means to test the nature of "good faith" in the wake of a devastating and divisive period in Roman history.

Author : Josiah Osgood,Kit Morrell,Kathryn Welch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190901424

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The Alternative Augustan Age by Josiah Osgood,Kit Morrell,Kathryn Welch Pdf

The princeps Augustus (63 BCE - 14 CE), recognized as the first of the Roman emperors, looms large in the teaching and writing of Roman history. Major political, literary, and artistic developments alike are attributed to him. This book deliberately and provocatively shifts the focus off Augustus while still looking at events of his time. Contributors uncover the perspectives and contributions of a range of individuals other than the princeps. Not all thought they were living in the "Augustan Age." Not all took their cues from Augustus. In their self-display or ideas for reform, some anticipated Augustus. Others found ways to oppose him that also helped to shape the future of their community. The volume challenges the very idea of an "Augustan Age" by breaking down traditional turning points and showing the continuous experimentation and development of these years to be in continuity with earlier Roman culture. In showcasing absences of Augustus and giving other figures their due, the papers here make a seemingly familiar period startlingly new.

Author : Virginia M. Closs,Elizabeth Keitel
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110674736

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Urban Disasters and the Roman Imagination by Virginia M. Closs,Elizabeth Keitel Pdf

This book affords new perspectives on urban disasters in the ancient Roman context, attending not just to the material and historical realities of such events, but also to the imaginary and literary possibilities offered by urban disaster as a figure of thought. Existential threats to the ancient city took many forms, including military invasions, natural disasters, public health crises, and gradual systemic collapses brought on by political or economic factors. In Roman cities, the memory of such events left lasting imprints on the city in psychological as well as in material terms. Individual chapters explore historical disasters and their commemoration, but others also consider of the effect of anticipated and imagined catastrophes. They analyze the destruction of cities both as a threat to be forestalled, and as a potentially regenerative agent of change, and the ways in which destroyed cities are revisited — and in a sense, rebuilt— in literary and social memory. The contributors to this volume seek to explore the Roman conception of disaster in terms that are not exclusively literary or historical. Instead, they explore the connections between and among various elements in the assemblage of experiences, texts, and traditions touching upon the theme of urban disasters in the Roman world.

Author : Joanna Kenty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781108839464

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Cicero's Political Personae by Joanna Kenty Pdf

Provides new insights into Cicero's political manoeuvring and the subtleties of his Latin prose.