An Economic History of Rome
... the Mesopotamian valley. Yet the wealth which made possible all this display did not spring from Latin industry or from commerce directed by Latins, if we may trust the archaeological evidence available. It was the produce of a rich soil cultivated with unusual intensity which paid for it, and kept ...
... the Mesopotamian valley. Yet the wealth which made possible all this display did not spring from Latin industry or from commerce directed by Latins, if we may trust the archaeological evidence available. It was the produce of a rich soil cultivated with unusual intensity which paid for it, and kept ...
From Alexander to..
... Archimedes has also been credited with improving the power and accuracy of the catapult. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes Archimedes' legendary engines are said to have used stones three times as heavy. Plutarch tells us that it was Hiero, another king of Syracuse, who spurred Archimedes into ...
... Archimedes has also been credited with improving the power and accuracy of the catapult. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes Archimedes' legendary engines are said to have used stones three times as heavy. Plutarch tells us that it was Hiero, another king of Syracuse, who spurred Archimedes into ...
sexual virtue, sexual vice, and the requirements of the
... pages of Petronius' Satyricon -- which portrays Roman life as an unbridled celebration of excess -- to conclude that the Romans joyfully abandoned themselves to all sorts of appetites. Vulgarity and sexual excess seemed to have been the order of the ...
... pages of Petronius' Satyricon -- which portrays Roman life as an unbridled celebration of excess -- to conclude that the Romans joyfully abandoned themselves to all sorts of appetites. Vulgarity and sexual excess seemed to have been the order of the ...
understanding roman inscriptions
... as well as the day-to-day lingua franca of much of the eastern Mediterranean world. Many ‘Roman’ inscriptions from these lands were inscribed in Greek. There are bilingual, even trilingual texts, in the manner of the well-known Rosetta Stone. 4 Local languages and scripts such as Punic, Thracian and ...
... as well as the day-to-day lingua franca of much of the eastern Mediterranean world. Many ‘Roman’ inscriptions from these lands were inscribed in Greek. There are bilingual, even trilingual texts, in the manner of the well-known Rosetta Stone. 4 Local languages and scripts such as Punic, Thracian and ...
The Ambitions of Mithridates VI: Hellenistic Kingship and Modern
... The first enlargement of Pontos, the takeover of Armenia Minor and Kolchis, was of little or no interest to Rome, just as Mithridates’ assistance to Greek cities and his fighting of nomadic tribes in the north and northwestern parts of the Black Sea was unlikely to have caused much disturbance in Ro ...
... The first enlargement of Pontos, the takeover of Armenia Minor and Kolchis, was of little or no interest to Rome, just as Mithridates’ assistance to Greek cities and his fighting of nomadic tribes in the north and northwestern parts of the Black Sea was unlikely to have caused much disturbance in Ro ...
military defeats, casualties of war - The University of North Carolina
... 229 C.E.) from Nicaea, all record some version of the story. But the comparison of the Roman army to the mythical hydra in the sense that the Romans would return a bigger and stronger army after a defeat was not limited to these Greek authors. Tacitus, the early second century C.E. author and senato ...
... 229 C.E.) from Nicaea, all record some version of the story. But the comparison of the Roman army to the mythical hydra in the sense that the Romans would return a bigger and stronger army after a defeat was not limited to these Greek authors. Tacitus, the early second century C.E. author and senato ...
Cicero in Catilīnam
... and the whole of Italy. Owing to the bias in our sources, however, we are not able to delineate the exact character of this conspiracy or its intended results. It is certain that Catiline planned to use force against his enemies in Rome, and it is probable that he intended to issue a general cancel ...
... and the whole of Italy. Owing to the bias in our sources, however, we are not able to delineate the exact character of this conspiracy or its intended results. It is certain that Catiline planned to use force against his enemies in Rome, and it is probable that he intended to issue a general cancel ...
Rogers and Hingley - Gibbon paper
... This paper focuses on the influence of Edward Gibbon’s monumental work The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire on theories of empire and decline. It concentrates especially on the dominance of decline in social thinking in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the wor ...
... This paper focuses on the influence of Edward Gibbon’s monumental work The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire on theories of empire and decline. It concentrates especially on the dominance of decline in social thinking in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the wor ...
The Antonine Wall: Reasons for the Roman Retreat
... different tribes or other factions within a tribe69. Despite these methods of unifying tribes, the 1st c. BCE, at least according to Caesar, was a time rife with discord and political tension70. There seemed to be powerful rivalries not just among tribes, but also within every unit of division all t ...
... different tribes or other factions within a tribe69. Despite these methods of unifying tribes, the 1st c. BCE, at least according to Caesar, was a time rife with discord and political tension70. There seemed to be powerful rivalries not just among tribes, but also within every unit of division all t ...
Ancient Roman architecture
Ancient Roman architecture developed different aspects of Ancient Greek architecture and newer technologies such as the arch and the dome to make a new architectural style. Roman architecture flourished throughout the Empire during the Pax Romana. Its use of new materials, particularly concrete, was a very important feature.Roman Architecture covers the period from the establishment of the Roman Republic in 509 BC to about the 4th century AD, after which it becomes reclassified as Late Antique or Byzantine architecture. Most of the many surviving examples are from the later period. Roman architectural style continued to influence building in the former empire for many centuries, and the style used in Western Europe beginning about 1000 is called Romanesque architecture to reflect this dependence on basic Roman forms.The Ancient Romans were responsible for significant developments in housing and public hygiene, for example their public and private baths and latrines, under-floor heating in the form of the hypocaust, mica glazing (examples in Ostia Antica), and piped hot and cold water (examples in Pompeii and Ostia).