CHAPTER X The Emperors Decius, Gallus, Aemilianus, Valerian
... The legions of Maesia forced their judge to become (AD 249) their accomplice. They left him only the alternative of death or the purple. His subsequent conduct, after that decisive measure, was unavoidable. He conducted or followed his army to the confines of Italy, where Philip, collecting all his ...
... The legions of Maesia forced their judge to become (AD 249) their accomplice. They left him only the alternative of death or the purple. His subsequent conduct, after that decisive measure, was unavoidable. He conducted or followed his army to the confines of Italy, where Philip, collecting all his ...
aspects of the integration of the periphery in the roman empire
... and Romano-centric. Moreover, there was a tendency in historiography to centre on explanatory schemes that stressed the role of the individual and morality. Hence the main focus was laid on the emperor and the intrigues among the senatorial and equestrian elites (Cizek 1995: 9-10, 22-3). From these ...
... and Romano-centric. Moreover, there was a tendency in historiography to centre on explanatory schemes that stressed the role of the individual and morality. Hence the main focus was laid on the emperor and the intrigues among the senatorial and equestrian elites (Cizek 1995: 9-10, 22-3). From these ...
Coliseum/Circus Maximus
... beginning with comedic contests and exotic animal shows in the morning and moving on to professional gladiator events in the afternoon. – In all shows, death played a prominent role. – During the Colosseum's opening ceremonies in A.D. 80, spectacles were held for 100 days in which hundreds of animal ...
... beginning with comedic contests and exotic animal shows in the morning and moving on to professional gladiator events in the afternoon. – In all shows, death played a prominent role. – During the Colosseum's opening ceremonies in A.D. 80, spectacles were held for 100 days in which hundreds of animal ...
Caesar`s Rule and Caesar`s Death : Who Lost? Who Gained?
... proscriptions, and another civil war. These horrors were followed by a decade of political and social turbulence. Within less than two decades of Julius Caesar’s murder these effects would combine to emasculate all surviving forms of Republican government, which became subservient to one man who rea ...
... proscriptions, and another civil war. These horrors were followed by a decade of political and social turbulence. Within less than two decades of Julius Caesar’s murder these effects would combine to emasculate all surviving forms of Republican government, which became subservient to one man who rea ...
Roman Soldiers Written Records
... 480 men) only about a tenth the size of a legion. Not surprisingly, then, the Tungrians and Batavians did not bother with anything as ambitious as an amphitheater. However, they did provide for the creature comfort of heated baths. They built their fort on green, springfed land near what would, with ...
... 480 men) only about a tenth the size of a legion. Not surprisingly, then, the Tungrians and Batavians did not bother with anything as ambitious as an amphitheater. However, they did provide for the creature comfort of heated baths. They built their fort on green, springfed land near what would, with ...
New Perspectives on Rome`s Farmer-Soldiers - H-Net
... changes over a period spanning a few decades. Therefore, Rosenstein uses contemporary demographic theory models as well as the latest in archaeology to skillfully interpret the literary sources. Clearly some guess work is involved in this sort of approach. For example, casualty lists apply almost ex ...
... changes over a period spanning a few decades. Therefore, Rosenstein uses contemporary demographic theory models as well as the latest in archaeology to skillfully interpret the literary sources. Clearly some guess work is involved in this sort of approach. For example, casualty lists apply almost ex ...
Julius Caesar - Stamford High School
... would be liable to prosecution in the courts for any illegal acts he had committed as a magistrate, but as long as he held public office he could not be sued. He wanted to be elected to a second consulship while he was still proconsul of Gaul. However the holding of both offices was illegal. Pompey ...
... would be liable to prosecution in the courts for any illegal acts he had committed as a magistrate, but as long as he held public office he could not be sued. He wanted to be elected to a second consulship while he was still proconsul of Gaul. However the holding of both offices was illegal. Pompey ...
The Roman Republic Biography SPARTACUS WHY HE MADE
... in the Roman army, but seems to have left the army to form a bandit group. Spartacus led the group on raids of their own. Eventually Spartacus was captured by the Romans. The Romans made him a slave and trained him to become a gladiator. Roman gladiators were forced to fight to entertain crowds of s ...
... in the Roman army, but seems to have left the army to form a bandit group. Spartacus led the group on raids of their own. Eventually Spartacus was captured by the Romans. The Romans made him a slave and trained him to become a gladiator. Roman gladiators were forced to fight to entertain crowds of s ...
Augustus and the Equites: Developing Rome`s Middle Class
... equestrian order could be acquired through talent, earnings, and more than one generation of free birth, the financial requirements were unachievable by a great number of free men in Rome, setting them apart from the plebeians. Alternatively, the equites were lower than the senatorial elite because ...
... equestrian order could be acquired through talent, earnings, and more than one generation of free birth, the financial requirements were unachievable by a great number of free men in Rome, setting them apart from the plebeians. Alternatively, the equites were lower than the senatorial elite because ...
cleopatra - msberrysocialstudies
... Mark Antony soon summoned Cleopatra to the Cicilian city of Tarsus (south of modern Turkey) to explain the role she had played in the complicated aftermath of Caesar’s assassination. According to the story recorded by Plutarch (and later dramatized famously by William Shakespeare), Cleopatra sailed ...
... Mark Antony soon summoned Cleopatra to the Cicilian city of Tarsus (south of modern Turkey) to explain the role she had played in the complicated aftermath of Caesar’s assassination. According to the story recorded by Plutarch (and later dramatized famously by William Shakespeare), Cleopatra sailed ...
Contents - Ancient History and Classics @ hansbeck.org
... “Roman sea” (mare nostrum: Caesar, BGall. 5.1.2) was seen as a teleological development. The only real threat to this came from Hannibal, who in the early years of the Second Punic War inflicted a series of disastrous defeats on the Romans. But those crisis years did not break Rome’s power, let alon ...
... “Roman sea” (mare nostrum: Caesar, BGall. 5.1.2) was seen as a teleological development. The only real threat to this came from Hannibal, who in the early years of the Second Punic War inflicted a series of disastrous defeats on the Romans. But those crisis years did not break Rome’s power, let alon ...
Rome, Constantinople, and the Barbarians Author(s): Walter Goffart
... by art historiansbut now applied, as by Jones, to social and economic history as well. If the empire is judged not to have been internally "sick,"one is bound to bring back to prominence the "ruin which comes from outside." ...
... by art historiansbut now applied, as by Jones, to social and economic history as well. If the empire is judged not to have been internally "sick,"one is bound to bring back to prominence the "ruin which comes from outside." ...
Lecture Schedule Reading Schedule
... and advantage (what is useful). As Cicero sets out his topic, he discusses “apparent” usefulness. What does he mean by this? 7. What lesson does Cicero convey by discussing people taking part in a race? 8. According to Cicero, were Regulus’ actions both right and advantageous? 9. In Caesar’s descrip ...
... and advantage (what is useful). As Cicero sets out his topic, he discusses “apparent” usefulness. What does he mean by this? 7. What lesson does Cicero convey by discussing people taking part in a race? 8. According to Cicero, were Regulus’ actions both right and advantageous? 9. In Caesar’s descrip ...
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 ...
CHAPTER 7: The Roman World
... The Roman World Section 1: Founding the Roman Republic Section 2: Rome Expands Its Borders Section 3: The Birth of the Roman Empire Section 4: Roman Society and Culture Section 5: The Rise of Christianity Section 6: The Fall of the Western Empire HOLT, RINEHART ...
... The Roman World Section 1: Founding the Roman Republic Section 2: Rome Expands Its Borders Section 3: The Birth of the Roman Empire Section 4: Roman Society and Culture Section 5: The Rise of Christianity Section 6: The Fall of the Western Empire HOLT, RINEHART ...
The Decline of the Small Roman Farmer and the Fall of the Roman
... traditional political system and set in motion the decline in aristocratic morals. 6 Historian David Shotter blamed the corrupting influence of imperial wealth for the gradual loss of the “old-fashioned corporateness” of Roman society and the rise in individualism among the Roman aristocracy.7 Histo ...
... traditional political system and set in motion the decline in aristocratic morals. 6 Historian David Shotter blamed the corrupting influence of imperial wealth for the gradual loss of the “old-fashioned corporateness” of Roman society and the rise in individualism among the Roman aristocracy.7 Histo ...
Τόπος και Χρόνος Γέννησης Τόπος και Χρόνος Θανάτου Κύρι
... known as Constantius Chlorus, and Diocletian appointed Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus, also known as Galerius. Diocletian hoped that by dividing the power he would ensure the stability of the Roman government. In addition, the problem of constant successions of the emperors, which had deplored t ...
... known as Constantius Chlorus, and Diocletian appointed Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus, also known as Galerius. Diocletian hoped that by dividing the power he would ensure the stability of the Roman government. In addition, the problem of constant successions of the emperors, which had deplored t ...
The Pax Romana, which begun under Augustus, was a
... set of gates to the Temple of Janus, which was closed in times of peace and opened in times of war) three times, first in 29 BCE and again in 25 BCE. The third closure is undocumented, but scholars have persuasively dated the event to 13 BCE during the Ara Pacis ceremony, which was held after August ...
... set of gates to the Temple of Janus, which was closed in times of peace and opened in times of war) three times, first in 29 BCE and again in 25 BCE. The third closure is undocumented, but scholars have persuasively dated the event to 13 BCE during the Ara Pacis ceremony, which was held after August ...
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (519 BC – 430 BC
... immediately. The tribunes who were thoroughly in awe of him made no attempt to interfere with the proceedings, and Volscius was found guilty and went into exile. Cincinnatus finally resigned after holding office for fifteen days, having originally accepted it for a period of six months. ...
... immediately. The tribunes who were thoroughly in awe of him made no attempt to interfere with the proceedings, and Volscius was found guilty and went into exile. Cincinnatus finally resigned after holding office for fifteen days, having originally accepted it for a period of six months. ...
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... as the apparent transmission of Octavian’s power to the senate (27 B.C.), marked the deÞnite end of republican Rome as it was once known9. However, they were also meant to signify a major improvement in both ethical and aesthetic tendencies (to name just a few) that from now on inßuenced the minds o ...
... as the apparent transmission of Octavian’s power to the senate (27 B.C.), marked the deÞnite end of republican Rome as it was once known9. However, they were also meant to signify a major improvement in both ethical and aesthetic tendencies (to name just a few) that from now on inßuenced the minds o ...
RRP Final Draft Admas - 2010
... because his head was cut off by the Egyptians who supported Caesar in 48 B.C. On a side note, Caesar was actually enraged by what the Egyptians did because he wanted to kill Pompey himself. This Civil War between Pompey and Caesar really brought out the mysterious side of Pompey. It was uncharacteri ...
... because his head was cut off by the Egyptians who supported Caesar in 48 B.C. On a side note, Caesar was actually enraged by what the Egyptians did because he wanted to kill Pompey himself. This Civil War between Pompey and Caesar really brought out the mysterious side of Pompey. It was uncharacteri ...
Name: Period - Mr. Dowling
... 51BCE, his will decreed that seventeen-year-old Cleopatra and her twelve-year-old brother, Ptolemy XIII, were to rule Egypt together—as husband and wife. Cleopatra was a very different ruler than the Ptolemies who came before her. She learned the Egyptian language while the other members of her fami ...
... 51BCE, his will decreed that seventeen-year-old Cleopatra and her twelve-year-old brother, Ptolemy XIII, were to rule Egypt together—as husband and wife. Cleopatra was a very different ruler than the Ptolemies who came before her. She learned the Egyptian language while the other members of her fami ...
From Princeps to Emperor
... the loyalty of the army (Tac. Ann. 73). Despite their adoration, Germanicus was probably not very well known in Rome. In AD 14, he was appointed as the commander of the two Roman armies on the Rhine, the Army of Upper and Lower Germany. Subsequent to his two campaigns against the Germans, he w ...
... the loyalty of the army (Tac. Ann. 73). Despite their adoration, Germanicus was probably not very well known in Rome. In AD 14, he was appointed as the commander of the two Roman armies on the Rhine, the Army of Upper and Lower Germany. Subsequent to his two campaigns against the Germans, he w ...
History of the Roman Constitution
The History of the Roman Constitution is a study of Ancient Rome that traces the progression of Roman political development from the founding of the city of Rome in 753 BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD. The constitution of the Roman Kingdom vested the sovereign power in the King of Rome. The king did have two rudimentary checks on his authority, which took the form of a board of elders (the Roman Senate) and a popular assembly (the Curiate Assembly). The arrangement was similar to the constitutional arrangements found in contemporary Greek city-states (such as Athens or Sparta). These Greek constitutional principles probably came to Rome through the Greek colonies of Magna Graecia in southern Italy. The Roman Kingdom was overthrown in 510 BC, according to legend, and in its place the Roman Republic was founded.The constitutional history of the Roman Republic can be divided into five phases. The first phase began with the revolution which overthrew the Roman Kingdom in 510 BC, and the final phase ended with the revolution which overthrew the Roman Republic, and thus created the Roman Empire, in 27 BC. Throughout the history of the republic, the constitutional evolution was driven by the struggle between the aristocracy (the ""Patricians"") and the ordinary citizens (the ""Plebeians""). Approximately two centuries after the founding of the republic, the Plebeians attained, in theory at least, equality with the Patricians. In practice, however, the plight of the average Plebeian remained unchanged. This set the stage for the civil wars of the 1st century BC, and Rome's transformation into a formal empire.The general who won the last civil war of the Roman Republic, Gaius Octavian, became the master of the state. In the years after 30 BC, Octavian set out to reform the Roman constitution, and to found the Principate. The ultimate consequence of these reforms was the abolition of the republic, and the founding of the Roman Empire. Octavian was given the honorific Augustus (""venerable"") by the Roman Senate, and became known to history by this name, and as the first Roman Emperor. Octavian's reforms did not, at the time, seem drastic, since they did nothing more than reorganize the constitution. The reorganization was revolutionary, however, because the ultimate result was that Octavian ended up with control over the entire constitution, which itself set the stage for outright monarchy. When Diocletian became Roman Emperor in 284, the Principate was abolished, and a new system, the Dominate, was established. This system survived until the ultimate fall of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire in 1453.