EASTERN RELIGIOUS INFLUENCES IN THE IMPERIAL ROMAN
... the case of this study, the period ranging over the first three centuries C.E. will be reviewed. According to Yann Le Bohec, the Roman military was a well-oiled machine with numerous divisions, a detailed system of organization, and hierarchical structure. The military’s forces were divided between ...
... the case of this study, the period ranging over the first three centuries C.E. will be reviewed. According to Yann Le Bohec, the Roman military was a well-oiled machine with numerous divisions, a detailed system of organization, and hierarchical structure. The military’s forces were divided between ...
2levene
... private issues held sway in place of real oratory (compare On Sublimity 44 for the argument that political freedom is necessary for great literature). Scholars have often followed suit, and have sought to read, not only Cicero, but most other writings of the period in terms of the contemporary polit ...
... private issues held sway in place of real oratory (compare On Sublimity 44 for the argument that political freedom is necessary for great literature). Scholars have often followed suit, and have sought to read, not only Cicero, but most other writings of the period in terms of the contemporary polit ...
Pompey`s politics and the presentation of his theatre
... 3 „But what enhanced his glory the most and had never yet happened to any of the Romans,” wrote Plutarch (Pomp. 45.5), „was that he celebrated his third triumph over the third continent. Even though there were others before him who had celebrated three triumphs; this man celebrated his first over Li ...
... 3 „But what enhanced his glory the most and had never yet happened to any of the Romans,” wrote Plutarch (Pomp. 45.5), „was that he celebrated his third triumph over the third continent. Even though there were others before him who had celebrated three triumphs; this man celebrated his first over Li ...
ALEXANDER YAKOBSON, Cicero, the Constitution and the Roman
... A thesis dealing with late-Republican ‘constitutionalism’ and the powers of the people has to be examined in the context of the ongoing debates on the character of the Republican political system and political culture. The controversy over the people’s role in the political system has been central t ...
... A thesis dealing with late-Republican ‘constitutionalism’ and the powers of the people has to be examined in the context of the ongoing debates on the character of the Republican political system and political culture. The controversy over the people’s role in the political system has been central t ...
C - York University
... Roman engineering was amazing for its time. But it required relatively little mathematics. Roman engineers learned only what they deemed necessary to know. The famous engineerengineer-architect Argippa, Argippa, who undertook a survey of the entire Roman empire, had to call in specialists from Alexa ...
... Roman engineering was amazing for its time. But it required relatively little mathematics. Roman engineers learned only what they deemed necessary to know. The famous engineerengineer-architect Argippa, Argippa, who undertook a survey of the entire Roman empire, had to call in specialists from Alexa ...
the man who needed
... It seems that historians have been the worst offenders in erecting barriers to the truth. Nonchalantly, they take it for granted that Britain was uncivilised, following like sheep the first writer who perpetrated this error. And this fallacy is blindly followed by Press, radio, and thus public opini ...
... It seems that historians have been the worst offenders in erecting barriers to the truth. Nonchalantly, they take it for granted that Britain was uncivilised, following like sheep the first writer who perpetrated this error. And this fallacy is blindly followed by Press, radio, and thus public opini ...
Daughter of a King
... Cleopatra's father, Ptolemy XII, did not have an easy time as ruler of Egypt. His efforts to strengthen his country's ties to Rome were well intentioned, but they angered the fiercely independent people of Alexandria, his capital city. In 58 b.c., the Alexandrians succeeded in driving him out, but t ...
... Cleopatra's father, Ptolemy XII, did not have an easy time as ruler of Egypt. His efforts to strengthen his country's ties to Rome were well intentioned, but they angered the fiercely independent people of Alexandria, his capital city. In 58 b.c., the Alexandrians succeeded in driving him out, but t ...
Culture and Collective Memory in Ancient Republicanism
... education, and the mixed constitution. And, despite their differences on questions of perfectionism and non-interference, contemporary republicans are united in the belief that their theories should guide practice. My chief concern is that the contemporary republicans’ conversations, altogether, hav ...
... education, and the mixed constitution. And, despite their differences on questions of perfectionism and non-interference, contemporary republicans are united in the belief that their theories should guide practice. My chief concern is that the contemporary republicans’ conversations, altogether, hav ...
Murray2015 - Edinburgh Research Archive
... reputation for virtue and worthy deeds; and to dishonour this must be branded as a sin and a shame. (Cic. Off. 1.121)1 The focus of this study is the relationship between aristocratic fathers and sons in the middle and late Roman Republic. This thesis argues that, although opportunities for conflict ...
... reputation for virtue and worthy deeds; and to dishonour this must be branded as a sin and a shame. (Cic. Off. 1.121)1 The focus of this study is the relationship between aristocratic fathers and sons in the middle and late Roman Republic. This thesis argues that, although opportunities for conflict ...
popular political participation in the late roman
... democracy does not necessarily result from popular sovereignty. In theory, citizens were meant to receive equal treatment before the law and equal political and civil rights. Yet, while some members of the Roman people were able to participate in the assemblies and meetings, the majority faced consi ...
... democracy does not necessarily result from popular sovereignty. In theory, citizens were meant to receive equal treatment before the law and equal political and civil rights. Yet, while some members of the Roman people were able to participate in the assemblies and meetings, the majority faced consi ...
Messala - Inter-Disciplinary.Net
... General Lew Wallace and published in 1880 by Harper & Brothers, this novel became of one the best selling popular novels of the nineteenth century both in the United States and abroad. In many ways its success was unparalleled. Before 1890 the novel had sold hundreds of thousands of copies, and Wall ...
... General Lew Wallace and published in 1880 by Harper & Brothers, this novel became of one the best selling popular novels of the nineteenth century both in the United States and abroad. In many ways its success was unparalleled. Before 1890 the novel had sold hundreds of thousands of copies, and Wall ...
Fides Romana - Otago University Research Archive
... fides embodied the concept that one’s word would be kept in all circumstances and that one’s actions were transparent. This chapter will attempt to establish the Roman perception of fides, as it is revealed through written sources, and discover how fides became an ideology of international affairs. ...
... fides embodied the concept that one’s word would be kept in all circumstances and that one’s actions were transparent. This chapter will attempt to establish the Roman perception of fides, as it is revealed through written sources, and discover how fides became an ideology of international affairs. ...
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 ...
constantinian arles and its christian Minters
... and North Africa to the regions earlier controlled by Constantine, Arles was centrally located between the northwestern and the southwestern domains which the emperor thereafter ruled through the western part of the Roman world. Constantine swiftly noted this fact, and focused his attentions on Arle ...
... and North Africa to the regions earlier controlled by Constantine, Arles was centrally located between the northwestern and the southwestern domains which the emperor thereafter ruled through the western part of the Roman world. Constantine swiftly noted this fact, and focused his attentions on Arle ...
Second Triumvirate
... ("Triumvirs for Confirming the Republic with Consular Power", invariably abbreviated as "III VIR RPC"). It possessed supreme political authority. The only other office which had ever been qualified "for confirming the Republic" was the dictatorship of Lucius Cornelius Sulla. The only limit on the po ...
... ("Triumvirs for Confirming the Republic with Consular Power", invariably abbreviated as "III VIR RPC"). It possessed supreme political authority. The only other office which had ever been qualified "for confirming the Republic" was the dictatorship of Lucius Cornelius Sulla. The only limit on the po ...
The Reforms of Julius Caesar A. Julius Caesar created ______
... Senate, he was an evil man who wished to be king. Suppose that you are in the Roman Forum (the public place of meeting) in 45 BC. Here is what people are saying about Caesar: Roman Soldier: I served with Caesar for eight years in Gaul (modern France). I tell you there is no greater general or a brav ...
... Senate, he was an evil man who wished to be king. Suppose that you are in the Roman Forum (the public place of meeting) in 45 BC. Here is what people are saying about Caesar: Roman Soldier: I served with Caesar for eight years in Gaul (modern France). I tell you there is no greater general or a brav ...
Where Titus Quintius Flamininus`s interests in line with those of the
... Senatorial orders, or whether he and his consilium invented the specific terms as a negotiating position. Diodorus gives an account of Flamininus’ demands for a Greece left ‘ungarrisoned and autonomous’.10 This choice of rhetoric is analogous to the terms used in the Isthmian declaration, and sugges ...
... Senatorial orders, or whether he and his consilium invented the specific terms as a negotiating position. Diodorus gives an account of Flamininus’ demands for a Greece left ‘ungarrisoned and autonomous’.10 This choice of rhetoric is analogous to the terms used in the Isthmian declaration, and sugges ...
ABSTRACT A Healing God Comes to Rome: Aesculapius and the
... Ancient Greeks and Romans exalted Asklepius (Aesculapius in Latin) as their god of healing and medicine. For the pagans, the art of medicine and healing was not separable from religion – “the Greeks and the Romans believed that the gods could not only cause, but also cure disease.”1 The cult of Askl ...
... Ancient Greeks and Romans exalted Asklepius (Aesculapius in Latin) as their god of healing and medicine. For the pagans, the art of medicine and healing was not separable from religion – “the Greeks and the Romans believed that the gods could not only cause, but also cure disease.”1 The cult of Askl ...
Tiberius` Opposition
... But here is by no means a full answer. If this were the casus belli, then the murder should have come months earlier when the agrarian law was first proposedor immediately upon passage, in order to prevent its going into operation. Instead, it is seen that neither before nor after Tiberius' death wa ...
... But here is by no means a full answer. If this were the casus belli, then the murder should have come months earlier when the agrarian law was first proposedor immediately upon passage, in order to prevent its going into operation. Instead, it is seen that neither before nor after Tiberius' death wa ...
Warped Intertextualities: Naevius and Sallust
... - civil war. The allusion may also obliquely recall the literary topos whereby an author laments how much foreign territory the Romans could have gained had they not turned against themselves so catastrophically in civil war. Moreover, if, as one critic has argued, the paratactic format of this ...
... - civil war. The allusion may also obliquely recall the literary topos whereby an author laments how much foreign territory the Romans could have gained had they not turned against themselves so catastrophically in civil war. Moreover, if, as one critic has argued, the paratactic format of this ...
Roman agriculture
Agriculture in ancient Rome was not only a necessity, but was idealized among the social elite as a way of life. Cicero considered farming the best of all Roman occupations. In his treatise On Duties, he declared that ""of all the occupations by which gain is secured, none is better than agriculture, none more profitable, none more delightful, none more becoming to a free man."" When one of his clients was derided in court for preferring a rural lifestyle, Cicero defended country life as ""the teacher of economy, of industry, and of justice"" (parsimonia, diligentia, iustitia). Cato, Columella, Varro and Palladius wrote handbooks on farming practice.The staple crop was spelt, and bread was the mainstay of every Roman table. In his treatise De agricultura (""On Farming"", 2nd century BC), Cato wrote that the best farm was a vineyard, followed by an irrigated garden, willow plantation, olive orchard, meadow, grain land, forest trees, vineyard trained on trees, and lastly acorn woodlands.Though Rome relied on resources from its many provinces acquired through conquest and warfare, wealthy Romans developed the land in Italy to produce a variety of crops. ""The people living in the city of Rome constituted a huge market for the purchase of food produced on Italian farms.""Land ownership was a dominant factor in distinguishing the aristocracy from the common person, and the more land a Roman owned, the more important he would be in the city. Soldiers were often rewarded with land from the commander they served. Though farms depended on slave labor, free men and citizens were hired at farms to oversee the slaves and ensure that the farms ran smoothly.