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... There are many stories about Hannibal found across a variety of texts and genres. No other external enemy of Rome had the same impact on Roman literature over time as the Carthaginians and their extraordinary general, Hannibal. This thesis compares the presentations of some iconic themes and events ...
... There are many stories about Hannibal found across a variety of texts and genres. No other external enemy of Rome had the same impact on Roman literature over time as the Carthaginians and their extraordinary general, Hannibal. This thesis compares the presentations of some iconic themes and events ...
- Nottingham ePrints
... helped in numerous ways, especially on Nicopolis and Apollo. The Department of Classics, University of Nottingham, especially Katharina Lorenz and Lisa Trentin for helping with questions on art history and Kyriaki Konstantinidou. I would also like to thank my former MA supervisor Jesper Carlsen, Itt ...
... helped in numerous ways, especially on Nicopolis and Apollo. The Department of Classics, University of Nottingham, especially Katharina Lorenz and Lisa Trentin for helping with questions on art history and Kyriaki Konstantinidou. I would also like to thank my former MA supervisor Jesper Carlsen, Itt ...
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... The mad monarchs of Roman history, with all their peculiarities and the countless anecdotes that surround their lives, form a fascinating topic of research. This book focuses on one of those ‘insane despots’. The emperor Commodus was the first purple-born Roman emperor, and according to our literary ...
... The mad monarchs of Roman history, with all their peculiarities and the countless anecdotes that surround their lives, form a fascinating topic of research. This book focuses on one of those ‘insane despots’. The emperor Commodus was the first purple-born Roman emperor, and according to our literary ...
Sallust
... It is true that the comitia centuriata at which the consuls were elected was structured with a bias against the poorer citizens (more on this later), such that their votes carried less weight. But if even according to Sallust “most of the young men, and especially the sons of the nobility, favored t ...
... It is true that the comitia centuriata at which the consuls were elected was structured with a bias against the poorer citizens (more on this later), such that their votes carried less weight. But if even according to Sallust “most of the young men, and especially the sons of the nobility, favored t ...
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 ...
A Novus Homo in Arpinum to a Cicero in Rome
... support, encouragement and advice throughout the entire process of writing my thesis. I am grateful to the faculty and staff at the Pennsylvania State University’s Department of Classics for supporting me throughout my undergraduate career and assisting me in finding my research focus. David Lunt in ...
... support, encouragement and advice throughout the entire process of writing my thesis. I am grateful to the faculty and staff at the Pennsylvania State University’s Department of Classics for supporting me throughout my undergraduate career and assisting me in finding my research focus. David Lunt in ...
REFRACTIONS OF ROME - A review of fixed bed gasification
... of cities. He even implies at the beginning of the Pharsalia that Caesar’s armies may annihilate the city of Rome itself. Nevertheless, Caesar enters the city in Book 3 without spilling blood and no conflicts occur at Rome during the remainder of the epic’s narrative. It is tempting but simplistic t ...
... of cities. He even implies at the beginning of the Pharsalia that Caesar’s armies may annihilate the city of Rome itself. Nevertheless, Caesar enters the city in Book 3 without spilling blood and no conflicts occur at Rome during the remainder of the epic’s narrative. It is tempting but simplistic t ...
- CUNY Academic Works
... resolution, effectively confining and directing the powers vested in him. On the other hand, the dictatorship, itself a demonstration of Rome’s adaptability by providing early on a second, emergency system to fix what the normal state could not, also adroitly changed as Rome did: new, single-task va ...
... resolution, effectively confining and directing the powers vested in him. On the other hand, the dictatorship, itself a demonstration of Rome’s adaptability by providing early on a second, emergency system to fix what the normal state could not, also adroitly changed as Rome did: new, single-task va ...
RG38_Uhlir_theses_2016
... However, the comparison extends beyond merely holding either blood or milk above the other. By discussing blood and milk within the same breath, Volumnia makes a connection between her role as a mother ...
... However, the comparison extends beyond merely holding either blood or milk above the other. By discussing blood and milk within the same breath, Volumnia makes a connection between her role as a mother ...
Cicero`s Catilinarian Orations: A Study in
... aware of the conscious effort of the orator to win them over emotionally in the beginning, and to leave them with an exalted or a commiserative heart at the end. Deeper research into this phenomenon shows that the orators of antiquity were most concerned with the emotional side of their oratory. of ...
... aware of the conscious effort of the orator to win them over emotionally in the beginning, and to leave them with an exalted or a commiserative heart at the end. Deeper research into this phenomenon shows that the orators of antiquity were most concerned with the emotional side of their oratory. of ...
this document as a
... Cicero and Clodius.--Position and Character of Clodius.--Cato sent to Cyprus.--Attempted Recall of Cicero defeated by Clodius.--Fight in the Forum.--Pardon and Return of Cicero.--Moderate Speech to the People.-Violence in the Senate.--Abuse of Piso and Gabinius.--Coldness of the Senate toward Cicer ...
... Cicero and Clodius.--Position and Character of Clodius.--Cato sent to Cyprus.--Attempted Recall of Cicero defeated by Clodius.--Fight in the Forum.--Pardon and Return of Cicero.--Moderate Speech to the People.-Violence in the Senate.--Abuse of Piso and Gabinius.--Coldness of the Senate toward Cicer ...
i Caligula Unmasked
... relate the event.30 Furthermore, in AD 39 Caligula appointed officials to various provinces, such as Galba and Petronius, who were capable of doing their tasks well, proof that he could make important decisions if the need arose.31 At the persuading of Herod Agrippa, Caligula also decided to change ...
... relate the event.30 Furthermore, in AD 39 Caligula appointed officials to various provinces, such as Galba and Petronius, who were capable of doing their tasks well, proof that he could make important decisions if the need arose.31 At the persuading of Herod Agrippa, Caligula also decided to change ...
james anthony froude 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 ...