roman clothing
... “Dress for a Roman often, if not primarily, signified rank, status, office, or authority. . . . The dress worn by the participants in an official scene had legal connotations. . . . The hierarchic, symbolic use of dress as a uniform or costume is part of Rome's legacy to Western civilization.” (Lari ...
... “Dress for a Roman often, if not primarily, signified rank, status, office, or authority. . . . The dress worn by the participants in an official scene had legal connotations. . . . The hierarchic, symbolic use of dress as a uniform or costume is part of Rome's legacy to Western civilization.” (Lari ...
appendix - Unika Repository
... issue aside and fight together against Pompey, and to further their alliance Antony shall marry Caesar's sister Octavia. The leaders leave together while their followers remain, and Enobarbus tells Maecenas and Agrippa about the gorgeous Cleopatra. He predicts that Antony will never leave her for go ...
... issue aside and fight together against Pompey, and to further their alliance Antony shall marry Caesar's sister Octavia. The leaders leave together while their followers remain, and Enobarbus tells Maecenas and Agrippa about the gorgeous Cleopatra. He predicts that Antony will never leave her for go ...
P. VENTIDIUS-FROM NOVUS HOMO TO `MILITARY HERO`
... ensuring their loyalty: it contained all their accumulated 100t.5 But we may be sure that Ventidius did not sell himself too cheaply; if he was to give up a lucrative business, he would have expected an army staff posting carrying some status,6 which might offer entry into public life-as in fact it ...
... ensuring their loyalty: it contained all their accumulated 100t.5 But we may be sure that Ventidius did not sell himself too cheaply; if he was to give up a lucrative business, he would have expected an army staff posting carrying some status,6 which might offer entry into public life-as in fact it ...
Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics
... population development in Roman Italy during the Late Republic, such a moderate growth scenario at least fits the surviving census tallies for this period which, if taken at face value, suggest a gradual demographic expansion of the citizenry. Equally importantly, it detaches the phenomenon of natur ...
... population development in Roman Italy during the Late Republic, such a moderate growth scenario at least fits the surviving census tallies for this period which, if taken at face value, suggest a gradual demographic expansion of the citizenry. Equally importantly, it detaches the phenomenon of natur ...
The Great Battles of Spartacus!
... Hannibal's day. Civil strife had rendered the Republic increasingly impotent. It took four years to suppress this first major slave rebellion. Roman nobles were loathe to campaign against mere slaves, and as long as the rebellion was safely confined to an island, it was allowed to fester. Eventually ...
... Hannibal's day. Civil strife had rendered the Republic increasingly impotent. It took four years to suppress this first major slave rebellion. Roman nobles were loathe to campaign against mere slaves, and as long as the rebellion was safely confined to an island, it was allowed to fester. Eventually ...
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... he takes her statement that she is “incorporate in Rome / a Roman now adopted happily” (I.i, 465-6) at face value, and accepts her as such. Her earlier status as Goth and enemy is erased from his mind and he only sees her as Saturninus’ “lovely bride” (II.ii, 4). This simplistic acceptance of people ...
... he takes her statement that she is “incorporate in Rome / a Roman now adopted happily” (I.i, 465-6) at face value, and accepts her as such. Her earlier status as Goth and enemy is erased from his mind and he only sees her as Saturninus’ “lovely bride” (II.ii, 4). This simplistic acceptance of people ...
JULIUS CAESAR - Check Your Accuracy
... bore ill for him personally. Finally, Calpurnia prevails upon Caesar to stay at home. Decius Brutus jeopardises Calpurnia’s plan and forces Caesar to go to the Senate, where the senators were waiting to offer a crown to him. On his way, Caesar rejects the petition of Cimber to revoke the orders for ...
... bore ill for him personally. Finally, Calpurnia prevails upon Caesar to stay at home. Decius Brutus jeopardises Calpurnia’s plan and forces Caesar to go to the Senate, where the senators were waiting to offer a crown to him. On his way, Caesar rejects the petition of Cimber to revoke the orders for ...
Untitled - Uni Oldenburg
... spite of this being a risky undertaking, we have to filter the emperors’ motivations from their actions. As Trajan’s Mesopotamian project was abortive, our information concerning the envisaged shape of an extended Roman Near East is scant. According to Dio, Trajan, after his conquest of Armenia, tre ...
... spite of this being a risky undertaking, we have to filter the emperors’ motivations from their actions. As Trajan’s Mesopotamian project was abortive, our information concerning the envisaged shape of an extended Roman Near East is scant. According to Dio, Trajan, after his conquest of Armenia, tre ...
Punic Wars- Rome
... on a frequent basis as a slight interruption to debate. Most often, the Crisis Director's appearance signals a significant change in committee and provides valuable information. Most often times after the update, the Crisis Director will take a finite number of questions which he/she will announce a ...
... on a frequent basis as a slight interruption to debate. Most often, the Crisis Director's appearance signals a significant change in committee and provides valuable information. Most often times after the update, the Crisis Director will take a finite number of questions which he/she will announce a ...
Alluding to Reality: towards a Typology of Historiographical
... the younger Cato. These seem either generalised (Alexander) or limited to a single act (the Catos). I want to try to sharpen current lines of analysis by looking at a less familiar and somewhat different case. In his biography of Scipio Aemilianus, A. E. Astin observed, There is an even more inter ...
... the younger Cato. These seem either generalised (Alexander) or limited to a single act (the Catos). I want to try to sharpen current lines of analysis by looking at a less familiar and somewhat different case. In his biography of Scipio Aemilianus, A. E. Astin observed, There is an even more inter ...
Kingdom of Osroene
... city, Edessa (modern Şanlıurfa, Turkey), was a historical kingdom located in upper Mesopotamia, [1] which enjoyed semi-autonomy to complete independence from the years of 132 BC to AD 244.[2][3] It was a Syriac-speaking kingdom.[4] Osroene, or Edessa, acquired independence from the collapsing Seleuc ...
... city, Edessa (modern Şanlıurfa, Turkey), was a historical kingdom located in upper Mesopotamia, [1] which enjoyed semi-autonomy to complete independence from the years of 132 BC to AD 244.[2][3] It was a Syriac-speaking kingdom.[4] Osroene, or Edessa, acquired independence from the collapsing Seleuc ...
Legal Profession in Ancient Republican Rome
... and legal practitioners. It is commonly accepted that the courts represent a sort of officialdom which is the very life and strength of the law. But those who really know the innermost workings of the law recognize the fact that it is the legal profession, the body of men learned in the law, rather ...
... and legal practitioners. It is commonly accepted that the courts represent a sort of officialdom which is the very life and strength of the law. But those who really know the innermost workings of the law recognize the fact that it is the legal profession, the body of men learned in the law, rather ...
umi-ku-2467_1 - KU ScholarWorks
... civilizations: since the two cultures had developed in such close proximity there were bound to be similarities. These similarities in culture would have faded into the background with time, forcing some Etruscan rituals into the category of “other” and the rest into the category of “archaic.” By th ...
... civilizations: since the two cultures had developed in such close proximity there were bound to be similarities. These similarities in culture would have faded into the background with time, forcing some Etruscan rituals into the category of “other” and the rest into the category of “archaic.” By th ...
Daniel Sainz - WordPress.com
... The 1960 film Spartacus tells the story of a slave and gladiator by the same name. Spartacus, born into slavery, grows up a defiant slave dreaming of his chance at freedom. He is purchased by Lentulus Batiatus to be trained as a gladiator. During his training he meets and eventually falls in love wi ...
... The 1960 film Spartacus tells the story of a slave and gladiator by the same name. Spartacus, born into slavery, grows up a defiant slave dreaming of his chance at freedom. He is purchased by Lentulus Batiatus to be trained as a gladiator. During his training he meets and eventually falls in love wi ...
The Roman senate and the post
... respect he failed: ‘the Romans...had never had a political system principally or formally based on law rather than on custom, and they were not ready or willing to make that fundamental and revolutionary change’.8 This insight points towards a new approach to understanding Sulla’s legacy, and potent ...
... respect he failed: ‘the Romans...had never had a political system principally or formally based on law rather than on custom, and they were not ready or willing to make that fundamental and revolutionary change’.8 This insight points towards a new approach to understanding Sulla’s legacy, and potent ...
MYSTERY OF THE FUNERARY RELIEFS OF
... The principal families of Palmyra built themselves imposing tombs in the suburbs. There are mainly three types of graves in the middle of the desert but the most striking ones are multi storey building-like tombs. These commanding structures austere from outside but elegant inside and each storey co ...
... The principal families of Palmyra built themselves imposing tombs in the suburbs. There are mainly three types of graves in the middle of the desert but the most striking ones are multi storey building-like tombs. These commanding structures austere from outside but elegant inside and each storey co ...
Romanization of Spain. Conclusion I - e
... conquest of Britain, to that island too '*. As the local agriculture grew more and more effective Spanish articles began to replace the imported ones from the Spanish markets too. For instance, while in the Republican epoch Campanian and South Italian wine and oil exercised complete sway in the Hibe ...
... conquest of Britain, to that island too '*. As the local agriculture grew more and more effective Spanish articles began to replace the imported ones from the Spanish markets too. For instance, while in the Republican epoch Campanian and South Italian wine and oil exercised complete sway in the Hibe ...
The Roman City Carnuntum
... the clay tiles for the underfloor heating systems were fired in Carnuntum’s own kiln, only old wood was used for roof constructions, which was chopped (just as the Romans did) and not cut. Building work itself was carried out using ancient craftsmen’s techniques. The interiors were designed as far a ...
... the clay tiles for the underfloor heating systems were fired in Carnuntum’s own kiln, only old wood was used for roof constructions, which was chopped (just as the Romans did) and not cut. Building work itself was carried out using ancient craftsmen’s techniques. The interiors were designed as far a ...
A tale of two periods
... several authors have also carefully suggested that the view of the tetrarchic period as a time of restoration perhaps puts too much faith in the propaganda of Diocletian’s government, although this line of thought has yet to be pursued thoroughly. But what is especially striking is the strict demarc ...
... several authors have also carefully suggested that the view of the tetrarchic period as a time of restoration perhaps puts too much faith in the propaganda of Diocletian’s government, although this line of thought has yet to be pursued thoroughly. But what is especially striking is the strict demarc ...
Roman Macedonia (168 BC - AD 284)
... forces led by the quaestor Lucius Tremellius Scrofa. The third such incident dates from the beginning of the rule of governor Gaius Sentius (93): taking advantage of the distress caused by a sharp and unjustified rise in the price of wheat in the province, a young Macedonian called Euphantus present ...
... forces led by the quaestor Lucius Tremellius Scrofa. The third such incident dates from the beginning of the rule of governor Gaius Sentius (93): taking advantage of the distress caused by a sharp and unjustified rise in the price of wheat in the province, a young Macedonian called Euphantus present ...