The Caecilii Metelli - BYU ScholarsArchive
... political involvement in Republican Rome can serve as a paradigm for understanding aristocratic families in Rome and how these families sought to preserve their position. The Metellan family serves this purpose well, as there is evidence for them and their political activities over a relatively lon ...
... political involvement in Republican Rome can serve as a paradigm for understanding aristocratic families in Rome and how these families sought to preserve their position. The Metellan family serves this purpose well, as there is evidence for them and their political activities over a relatively lon ...
A Novus Homo in Arpinum to a Cicero in Rome
... This thesis would not have been finished without the support of the Department of Classics at Brandeis University, particularly the support of my advisor, Cheryl Walker. Professor Walker challenged me in my view of the primary source material and pushed me to be more critical of the sources. I would ...
... This thesis would not have been finished without the support of the Department of Classics at Brandeis University, particularly the support of my advisor, Cheryl Walker. Professor Walker challenged me in my view of the primary source material and pushed me to be more critical of the sources. I would ...
REFRACTIONS OF ROME - A review of fixed bed gasification
... This dissertation could not have been written without the assistance of numerous mentors, colleagues, friends, and relatives who have advised and supported me over the years. All remaining flaws in the dissertation are, of course, my own. My committee consisted of Michael Fontaine, Pietro Pucci and ...
... This dissertation could not have been written without the assistance of numerous mentors, colleagues, friends, and relatives who have advised and supported me over the years. All remaining flaws in the dissertation are, of course, my own. My committee consisted of Michael Fontaine, Pietro Pucci and ...
Word - The Open University
... incomplete and authorship is uncertain, but it purports to be the work of more than one hand, a group of authors known as the Scriptores Historiae Augustae. However, arguments have now been made that the SHA is the work of just one author. It remains unclear exactly when this author(s) was writing, ...
... incomplete and authorship is uncertain, but it purports to be the work of more than one hand, a group of authors known as the Scriptores Historiae Augustae. However, arguments have now been made that the SHA is the work of just one author. It remains unclear exactly when this author(s) was writing, ...
Άλλα Ονόματα Τόπος και Χρόνος Γέννησης Τόπος και Χρόνος
... contrived to have Asia and Cilicia removed from his command.1 Nevertheless, Lucullus soldiered on in Armenia only to witness a resurgence in the fortunes of Mithridates and the beginning of mutinies of his own soldiers army who resented the long campaigns. Mithridates defeated Lucullus’ legate at Ze ...
... contrived to have Asia and Cilicia removed from his command.1 Nevertheless, Lucullus soldiered on in Armenia only to witness a resurgence in the fortunes of Mithridates and the beginning of mutinies of his own soldiers army who resented the long campaigns. Mithridates defeated Lucullus’ legate at Ze ...
Άλλα Ονόματα Τόπος και Χρόνος Γέννησης Τόπος και Χρόνος
... contrived to have Asia and Cilicia removed from his command.1 Nevertheless, Lucullus soldiered on in Armenia only to witness a resurgence in the fortunes of Mithridates and the beginning of mutinies of his own soldiers army who resented the long campaigns. Mithridates defeated Lucullus’ legate at Ze ...
... contrived to have Asia and Cilicia removed from his command.1 Nevertheless, Lucullus soldiered on in Armenia only to witness a resurgence in the fortunes of Mithridates and the beginning of mutinies of his own soldiers army who resented the long campaigns. Mithridates defeated Lucullus’ legate at Ze ...
Άλλα Ονόματα Τόπος και Χρόνος Γέννησης Τόπος και Χρόνος
... contrived to have Asia and Cilicia removed from his command.1 Nevertheless, Lucullus soldiered on in Armenia only to witness a resurgence in the fortunes of Mithridates and the beginning of mutinies of his own soldiers army who resented the long campaigns. Mithridates defeated Lucullus’ legate at Ze ...
... contrived to have Asia and Cilicia removed from his command.1 Nevertheless, Lucullus soldiered on in Armenia only to witness a resurgence in the fortunes of Mithridates and the beginning of mutinies of his own soldiers army who resented the long campaigns. Mithridates defeated Lucullus’ legate at Ze ...
PDF - La Trobe University
... popular with the people and fortunate enough to be born a member of the Roman elite. This winning combination allowed him to craft a position for himself that changed his world and the world around him, and established an enduring legacy which lasted for millennia. In the years after his death, Caes ...
... popular with the people and fortunate enough to be born a member of the Roman elite. This winning combination allowed him to craft a position for himself that changed his world and the world around him, and established an enduring legacy which lasted for millennia. In the years after his death, Caes ...
The Mithridatic Wars
... By 120 BCE, the Roman Republic was quickly becoming the most dominant state of the Western world since Alexander the Great‟s empire. Since the Punic wars, Rome had added Mediterranean islands, most of Spain and territory in Northern Africa. Rome also had conquered provinces and protectorates in Gau ...
... By 120 BCE, the Roman Republic was quickly becoming the most dominant state of the Western world since Alexander the Great‟s empire. Since the Punic wars, Rome had added Mediterranean islands, most of Spain and territory in Northern Africa. Rome also had conquered provinces and protectorates in Gau ...
Coriolanus: The Tragedy of Virtus
... at least implicitly, by the Roman historians themselves. Livy, with whom Shakespeare would have been acquainted from his schooldays, balances against one another in his early books precisely these two historical facts. He celebrates Rome's military triumphs in Italy but deplores the precarious unity ...
... at least implicitly, by the Roman historians themselves. Livy, with whom Shakespeare would have been acquainted from his schooldays, balances against one another in his early books precisely these two historical facts. He celebrates Rome's military triumphs in Italy but deplores the precarious unity ...
Horace`s Ideal Italy: Sabines and Sabellians in Odes 1-3
... Department of Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, BYU Master of Arts Within Odes 1-3 Horace consistently locates an idealized version of Rome in Sabinum and Italia. The former had long been a moral foil for Rome. The latter consisted of the regions of Italy that rebelled against Rome d ...
... Department of Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature, BYU Master of Arts Within Odes 1-3 Horace consistently locates an idealized version of Rome in Sabinum and Italia. The former had long been a moral foil for Rome. The latter consisted of the regions of Italy that rebelled against Rome d ...
A Chronology of the Roman Empire
... written calendars. On these they noted not just the days and months of the year but also – crucial for the survival of a subsistence farming community – the run of annual religious festivals that marked the progress of the agricultural year and, more broadly, which dates were propitious (fasti) for ...
... written calendars. On these they noted not just the days and months of the year but also – crucial for the survival of a subsistence farming community – the run of annual religious festivals that marked the progress of the agricultural year and, more broadly, which dates were propitious (fasti) for ...
Ibid. - meguca.org
... poet mourning the cruelty of his mistress, or a father his dead daughter, these may seem to speak to us directly of something permanent in human nature, and yet how alien, how utterly alien a Roman’s assumptions about sexual relations, or family life, would appear to us. So too the values that gave ...
... poet mourning the cruelty of his mistress, or a father his dead daughter, these may seem to speak to us directly of something permanent in human nature, and yet how alien, how utterly alien a Roman’s assumptions about sexual relations, or family life, would appear to us. So too the values that gave ...
Chapter Two: The Annalistic Form - UFDC Image Array 2
... as poetic forms such as epics (both the grand nation-shaping epics of Naevius and Ennius, and lesser epics on specific campaigns such as the Bellum Histricum by Hostius), Roman tragedies called fabulae praetextae, commentarii, monographs, annales in verse, and short historical poems. Even the so-cal ...
... as poetic forms such as epics (both the grand nation-shaping epics of Naevius and Ennius, and lesser epics on specific campaigns such as the Bellum Histricum by Hostius), Roman tragedies called fabulae praetextae, commentarii, monographs, annales in verse, and short historical poems. Even the so-cal ...
spectacles of death in ancient rome
... 1992 at the meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the American Philological Association a joint panel on the Roman arena (abstracted in AJArch. 97 (1993) 304–6) showed that the scholarly community was ready for new perspectives on spectacles. As I was working on the project, impress ...
... 1992 at the meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the American Philological Association a joint panel on the Roman arena (abstracted in AJArch. 97 (1993) 304–6) showed that the scholarly community was ready for new perspectives on spectacles. As I was working on the project, impress ...
Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome
... 1992 at the meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the American Philological Association a joint panel on the Roman arena (abstracted in AJArch. 97 (1993) 304–6) showed that the scholarly community was ready for new perspectives on spectacles. As I was working on the project, impress ...
... 1992 at the meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the American Philological Association a joint panel on the Roman arena (abstracted in AJArch. 97 (1993) 304–6) showed that the scholarly community was ready for new perspectives on spectacles. As I was working on the project, impress ...
75 AD THE COMPARISON OF FABIUS WITH PERICLES Plutarch
... highest valour, wisdom, and humanity. On the other side, it does not appear that Pericles was ever so overreached as Fabius was by Hannibal with his flaming oxen. His enemy there had, without his agency, put himself accidentally into his power, yet Fabius let him slip in the night, and, when day ca ...
... highest valour, wisdom, and humanity. On the other side, it does not appear that Pericles was ever so overreached as Fabius was by Hannibal with his flaming oxen. His enemy there had, without his agency, put himself accidentally into his power, yet Fabius let him slip in the night, and, when day ca ...
LIVY, VEII, AND ROME: AB URBE CONDITA, BOOK V by KARL
... Through Appius Claudius’ speech, Livy is claiming outright that even during the siege it was considered an epic task4 by those taking part in the struggle and so gives evidence to any wouldbe critics that his presentation of the event is justifiable; he also allows his readers to associate his histo ...
... Through Appius Claudius’ speech, Livy is claiming outright that even during the siege it was considered an epic task4 by those taking part in the struggle and so gives evidence to any wouldbe critics that his presentation of the event is justifiable; he also allows his readers to associate his histo ...
Herod and Augustus: A Look at Patron
... besieged Jerusalem for three months. Two Hasmonaean23 princes were vying for power over Palestine: the rightful heir and high priest, Hyrcanus II, fought for control against his insurgent brother, Aristobulus, who had seized the throne in 67 b.c.24 Both Hyrcanus (aided by Antipater, his chief adviso ...
... besieged Jerusalem for three months. Two Hasmonaean23 princes were vying for power over Palestine: the rightful heir and high priest, Hyrcanus II, fought for control against his insurgent brother, Aristobulus, who had seized the throne in 67 b.c.24 Both Hyrcanus (aided by Antipater, his chief adviso ...
Reflections on Titus and Josephus
... brought a blacksmith who hammered before him. If he was a nonJew, they gave him four zuZ, if he was a Jew they said, It is enough that you see the suffering of your enemy. This went on for thirty days, but then the creature got used to it ... When [Titus] died he said: Burn me and scatter my ashes o ...
... brought a blacksmith who hammered before him. If he was a nonJew, they gave him four zuZ, if he was a Jew they said, It is enough that you see the suffering of your enemy. This went on for thirty days, but then the creature got used to it ... When [Titus] died he said: Burn me and scatter my ashes o ...
The Grand Strategy: A Study on Hannibal`s Stratagem During the
... Patavinus in Patavium around the mid 1st century BC. 3 His only surviving work was the Ab Urbe Condita which covered the history of Rome from its founding up until the days of Livy’s own lifetime, the turbulent period of civil wars and the rise of Octavian.4 These books do not exist in their entiret ...
... Patavinus in Patavium around the mid 1st century BC. 3 His only surviving work was the Ab Urbe Condita which covered the history of Rome from its founding up until the days of Livy’s own lifetime, the turbulent period of civil wars and the rise of Octavian.4 These books do not exist in their entiret ...
Roman Imperialism - McMaster University, Canada
... nothing remained of the numerous villages but the vanishing names of their shrines. Out of these names grew the legend that Latium had once been a land of many cities. Common ownership of land also gave way to private possession, perhaps during the same time of stress — at least at an early date — f ...
... nothing remained of the numerous villages but the vanishing names of their shrines. Out of these names grew the legend that Latium had once been a land of many cities. Common ownership of land also gave way to private possession, perhaps during the same time of stress — at least at an early date — f ...
Binary Oppositions in The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra
... with Cleopatra, the Egyptian queen, and then lived in Egypt with Cleopatra and neglected his duty as one of the triumvirs in Rome. Shakespeare’s Antony underwent inner conflicts between love and duty. He is a “high mimetic mode” of tragic hero according to Northrop Frye’s fictional modes: “the hero ...
... with Cleopatra, the Egyptian queen, and then lived in Egypt with Cleopatra and neglected his duty as one of the triumvirs in Rome. Shakespeare’s Antony underwent inner conflicts between love and duty. He is a “high mimetic mode” of tragic hero according to Northrop Frye’s fictional modes: “the hero ...
From Triumphal Gates to Triumphant Rotting: Refractions of Rome in
... Mandel’shtam, and Brodsky, so the focus shifts onto these poets and their individual relationships with the classics rather than overarching thematic patterns or frameworks. This focus is particularly useful for those interested in these specific poets or those interested in seeing the variety of ap ...
... Mandel’shtam, and Brodsky, so the focus shifts onto these poets and their individual relationships with the classics rather than overarching thematic patterns or frameworks. This focus is particularly useful for those interested in these specific poets or those interested in seeing the variety of ap ...
Ancient Rome Resource Pack
... The story of the rape of Lucretia from Livy’s History of Rome http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/livy-rape.html Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, last king of Rome http://www.unrv.com/bio/lucius-tarquinius-superbus.php The Struggle against Kingship http://www.forumromanum.org/history/morey06.html The ...
... The story of the rape of Lucretia from Livy’s History of Rome http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/livy-rape.html Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, last king of Rome http://www.unrv.com/bio/lucius-tarquinius-superbus.php The Struggle against Kingship http://www.forumromanum.org/history/morey06.html The ...