three studies - Durham e-Theses
... Now, though I suppose you have had all the news fi-om your family or fi-om messangers and rumours, I will give you a short account of everything I think you would rather learn firom my letters. On the 4th of August, the very day the law about me was proposed, I startedfiromDyrrachium, and arrived at ...
... Now, though I suppose you have had all the news fi-om your family or fi-om messangers and rumours, I will give you a short account of everything I think you would rather learn firom my letters. On the 4th of August, the very day the law about me was proposed, I startedfiromDyrrachium, and arrived at ...
Context
... suffered from constant infighting between ambitious military leaders and the far weaker senators to whom they supposedly owed allegiance. The empire also suffered from a sharp division between citizens, who were represented in the senate, and the increasingly underrepresented plebeian masses. A succ ...
... suffered from constant infighting between ambitious military leaders and the far weaker senators to whom they supposedly owed allegiance. The empire also suffered from a sharp division between citizens, who were represented in the senate, and the increasingly underrepresented plebeian masses. A succ ...
a report for an internship carried out at the rwanda
... away from a siege to a council; and the same page places us in the middle of a campaign against the barbarians, and in the depths of the Monophysite controversy. In Gibbon it is not always easy to bear in mind the exact dates but the course of events is ever clear and distinct; like a skilful genera ...
... away from a siege to a council; and the same page places us in the middle of a campaign against the barbarians, and in the depths of the Monophysite controversy. In Gibbon it is not always easy to bear in mind the exact dates but the course of events is ever clear and distinct; like a skilful genera ...
HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
... the same page places us in the middle of a campaign against the barbarians, and in the depths of the Monophysite controversy. In Gibbon it is not always easy to bear in mind the exact dates but the course of events is ever clear and distinct; like a skilful general, though his troops advance from th ...
... the same page places us in the middle of a campaign against the barbarians, and in the depths of the Monophysite controversy. In Gibbon it is not always easy to bear in mind the exact dates but the course of events is ever clear and distinct; like a skilful general, though his troops advance from th ...
CONSTRUCTING CAESAR: JULIUS CAESAR`S
... itself in the language that constitutes the text” (Bal 16). Julius Caesar himself invites us to draw this distinction. Consider the statement at Bellum Gallicum 4.17.1, one of many such examples: Caesar his de causis, quas commemoravi, Rhenum transire decreverat (For the reasons I have recalled, Ca ...
... itself in the language that constitutes the text” (Bal 16). Julius Caesar himself invites us to draw this distinction. Consider the statement at Bellum Gallicum 4.17.1, one of many such examples: Caesar his de causis, quas commemoravi, Rhenum transire decreverat (For the reasons I have recalled, Ca ...
History Of The Decli.. - The Conscious Living Foundation
... council; and the same page places us in the middle of a campaign against the barbarians, and in the depths of the Monophysite controversy. In Gibbon it is not always easy to bear in mind the exact dates but the course of events is ever clear and distinct; like a skilful general, though his troops ad ...
... council; and the same page places us in the middle of a campaign against the barbarians, and in the depths of the Monophysite controversy. In Gibbon it is not always easy to bear in mind the exact dates but the course of events is ever clear and distinct; like a skilful general, though his troops ad ...
REFRACTIONS OF ROME - A review of fixed bed gasification
... numerous mentors, colleagues, friends, and relatives who have advised and supported me over the years. All remaining flaws in the dissertation are, of course, my own. My committee consisted of Michael Fontaine, Pietro Pucci and Frederick Ahl. I cannot do justice to them in this paragraph, but I hope ...
... numerous mentors, colleagues, friends, and relatives who have advised and supported me over the years. All remaining flaws in the dissertation are, of course, my own. My committee consisted of Michael Fontaine, Pietro Pucci and Frederick Ahl. I cannot do justice to them in this paragraph, but I hope ...
Sextus Pompeius: Rebellious Pirate or Imitative Son?
... the old Republic by reminding her readers that there were many other noble contemporaries who retained an “uneasy” memory of and relationship to Pompey and his sons (Welch, “Both” 21-2). She also notes that the oligarchic Senators still in Rome were aware of Sextus’ activities, successes, and even h ...
... the old Republic by reminding her readers that there were many other noble contemporaries who retained an “uneasy” memory of and relationship to Pompey and his sons (Welch, “Both” 21-2). She also notes that the oligarchic Senators still in Rome were aware of Sextus’ activities, successes, and even h ...
julius caesar: the colossus of rome
... of biographies of Greek and Roman leaders. We still possess his biographies of the two Gracchus brothers, of Marius, Sulla, Sertorius, Crassus, Lucullus, Pompeius, Cicero, Caesar, Cato the Younger, Marcus Antonius and Marcus Brutus. Together they tell us an enormous amount about these crucial leader ...
... of biographies of Greek and Roman leaders. We still possess his biographies of the two Gracchus brothers, of Marius, Sulla, Sertorius, Crassus, Lucullus, Pompeius, Cicero, Caesar, Cato the Younger, Marcus Antonius and Marcus Brutus. Together they tell us an enormous amount about these crucial leader ...
Disorder in Rome`s Asia Minor - Sound Ideas
... right granted to the city by Augustus, Trajan was unsure whether this grant was actually made. In response, he ordered Pliny to investigate with help from his procurators.50 Such grants were not always formal or documented, which created great confusion for later administrators with no access to def ...
... right granted to the city by Augustus, Trajan was unsure whether this grant was actually made. In response, he ordered Pliny to investigate with help from his procurators.50 Such grants were not always formal or documented, which created great confusion for later administrators with no access to def ...
the sertorian wars, the seeds of a nation
... Without water the town would surrender. Sertorius’ Hispanics gathered up many animal skins and tied them off to use as air bladders. The strongest and best swimmers floated the bladders downstream at night to the dam, filled them with water, then slipped past the guard, penetrating the wall where th ...
... Without water the town would surrender. Sertorius’ Hispanics gathered up many animal skins and tied them off to use as air bladders. The strongest and best swimmers floated the bladders downstream at night to the dam, filled them with water, then slipped past the guard, penetrating the wall where th ...
Word - The Open University
... this section. The Temple of Zeus Asklepios in Pergamum, an important city in Asia Minor, was modelled on the Pantheon and this illustrates a second reason for studying the monuments of Hadrianic Rome: the extent to which they inspired Roman architecture elsewhere in the empire. Elements of Hadrianic ...
... this section. The Temple of Zeus Asklepios in Pergamum, an important city in Asia Minor, was modelled on the Pantheon and this illustrates a second reason for studying the monuments of Hadrianic Rome: the extent to which they inspired Roman architecture elsewhere in the empire. Elements of Hadrianic ...
Honors Thesis
... carefully. Pompey himself rose to power through the patronage of a powerful and ancient Roman gens, the Scipiones. He garnered more support by divorcing his first wife and marrying a Metella, the daughter of another formidable and long-lasting Roman gens. 9 His father achieved the consulship in 89 a ...
... carefully. Pompey himself rose to power through the patronage of a powerful and ancient Roman gens, the Scipiones. He garnered more support by divorcing his first wife and marrying a Metella, the daughter of another formidable and long-lasting Roman gens. 9 His father achieved the consulship in 89 a ...
View - OhioLINK ETD
... My study suggests some answers. Public conflicts involving a person’s piety tended to occur when some new or unforeseen element was introduced into Roman religious life, since in these situations tradition did not provide guidelines on what the community had to do to fulfill its obligation to the g ...
... My study suggests some answers. Public conflicts involving a person’s piety tended to occur when some new or unforeseen element was introduced into Roman religious life, since in these situations tradition did not provide guidelines on what the community had to do to fulfill its obligation to the g ...
Jean Bodin on Sovereignty - Arcade
... absolute monarchy. However, he thought a royal (as opposed to a despotic) monarchy consults the Paris and provincial parlements and the Estates General with respect to legislation and taxation; “the most divine, most excellent, and the state form most proper to royalty is governed partly aristocrati ...
... absolute monarchy. However, he thought a royal (as opposed to a despotic) monarchy consults the Paris and provincial parlements and the Estates General with respect to legislation and taxation; “the most divine, most excellent, and the state form most proper to royalty is governed partly aristocrati ...
Sallust
... moreover left us a huge amount of writing. By taking a look at Cicero we will gain a better understanding of the politics of the first century BCE, which in turn will provide us with an important context with which better to understand the political role of the Jews. The best way to understand Cicer ...
... moreover left us a huge amount of writing. By taking a look at Cicero we will gain a better understanding of the politics of the first century BCE, which in turn will provide us with an important context with which better to understand the political role of the Jews. The best way to understand Cicer ...
NERO - Shadows Government
... many amongst the senatorial order; to them, he became a ‘king’ (rex), that most hated figure of Rome’s past. Yet many ordinary people valued the strength and apparent security of his patronage; to them, the arrival on the scene of a new Caesar (Octavian – the future emperor, Augustus) was a guarantee ...
... many amongst the senatorial order; to them, he became a ‘king’ (rex), that most hated figure of Rome’s past. Yet many ordinary people valued the strength and apparent security of his patronage; to them, the arrival on the scene of a new Caesar (Octavian – the future emperor, Augustus) was a guarantee ...
Literature and Its Times Julius Caesar
... pact to support each other politically. This pact, which became known as the First Triumvirate, allowed each to support the others in accomplishing their respective political goals. Armed with such power, the three allied senators were able to get laws passed more easily than they had been able to d ...
... pact to support each other politically. This pact, which became known as the First Triumvirate, allowed each to support the others in accomplishing their respective political goals. Armed with such power, the three allied senators were able to get laws passed more easily than they had been able to d ...
Volume Two - McMaster University, Canada
... alld which I could not consider as mistakes, although the authorities which I had before me seemed to justify such a SUPposition. But Niebuhr may have had other authorities which were unknown t~ me. Wherever such a case occurred, I have pointed it out in a note. There are lastly a very few statement ...
... alld which I could not consider as mistakes, although the authorities which I had before me seemed to justify such a SUPposition. But Niebuhr may have had other authorities which were unknown t~ me. Wherever such a case occurred, I have pointed it out in a note. There are lastly a very few statement ...
Cicero`s Catilinarian Orations: A Study in
... means Which he employed to secure a favorable popular reaction toward the banis bing of Catiline. ...
... means Which he employed to secure a favorable popular reaction toward the banis bing of Catiline. ...
reinterpretations of the struggle of the orders
... What did Roman authors in various genres think they were doing when they wrote about the past? How did the Romans try to understand their history, and how did they give meaning to stories of their past? It is clear that some embellishment of the narrative tradition of early Rome took place between o ...
... What did Roman authors in various genres think they were doing when they wrote about the past? How did the Romans try to understand their history, and how did they give meaning to stories of their past? It is clear that some embellishment of the narrative tradition of early Rome took place between o ...
Caesar: A Sketch
... entirely depended upon are brought to an end. The secondary group of authorities from which the popular histories of the time have been chiefly taken are Appian, Plutarch, Suetonius, and Dion Cassius. Of these the first three were divided from the period which they describe by nearly a century and a ...
... entirely depended upon are brought to an end. The secondary group of authorities from which the popular histories of the time have been chiefly taken are Appian, Plutarch, Suetonius, and Dion Cassius. Of these the first three were divided from the period which they describe by nearly a century and a ...
Hannibal, soldier, statesman, patriot, and the crisis of the struggle
... with his time and his career, that deserves attention, and the feeble poem of Silius Italicus is chiefly interesting as it affords proof how Hannibal's memory impressed the Romans with awe, even after the lapse of centuries. But two historians of the ancient world did describe the Second Punic War i ...
... with his time and his career, that deserves attention, and the feeble poem of Silius Italicus is chiefly interesting as it affords proof how Hannibal's memory impressed the Romans with awe, even after the lapse of centuries. But two historians of the ancient world did describe the Second Punic War i ...
Vestal Virgins of Rome: Images Of Power
... ambiguity that they later exploited to expand their political and legal rights, which will be discussed in the next section. One way in which the Vestals were able to connect the public and private cults was in the creation of mola salsa. Among the Vestal Virgins’ earliest duties was the preparation ...
... ambiguity that they later exploited to expand their political and legal rights, which will be discussed in the next section. One way in which the Vestals were able to connect the public and private cults was in the creation of mola salsa. Among the Vestal Virgins’ earliest duties was the preparation ...
Cursus honorum
The cursus honorum (Latin: ""course of offices"") was the sequential order of public offices held by aspiring politicians in both the Roman Republic and the early Empire. It was designed for men of senatorial rank. The cursus honorum comprised a mixture of military and political administration posts. Each office had a minimum age for election. There were minimum intervals between holding successive offices and laws forbade repeating an office.These rules were altered and flagrantly ignored in the course of the last century of the Republic. For example, Gaius Marius held consulships for five years in a row between 104 BC and 100 BC. Officially presented as opportunities for public service, the offices often became mere opportunities for self-aggrandizement. The reforms of Lucius Cornelius Sulla required a ten-year period between holding another term in the same office.To have held each office at the youngest possible age (suo anno, ""in his year"") was considered a great political success, since to miss out on a praetorship at 39 meant that one could not become consul at 42. Cicero expressed extreme pride not only in being a novus homo (""new man""; comparable to a ""self-made man"") who became consul even though none of his ancestors had ever served as a consul, but also in having become consul ""in his year"".