Why did they do that? Takes on the PUNIC WARS by David E Woody
... Carthage should attempt to retake the island. Scipio was ordered to take his troops on ships, and sail to Spain to protect Roman possessions there. Along the way, he stopped at the Rhone River for rest and supplies. A cavalry detachment he sent to scout the countryside came into conflict with a deta ...
... Carthage should attempt to retake the island. Scipio was ordered to take his troops on ships, and sail to Spain to protect Roman possessions there. Along the way, he stopped at the Rhone River for rest and supplies. A cavalry detachment he sent to scout the countryside came into conflict with a deta ...
Άλλα Ονόματα Τόπος και Χρόνος Γέννησης Τόπος και Χρόνος
... who was an aedile in 202 B.C. His grandfather, L. Licinius Lucullus, was the first member of the family to reach the consulship (151 B.C.) and thus confer nobility on the family. He gained an bad reputation for his conduct of war in Spain. His son L. Licinius Lucullus was praetor in 104 B.C. and he ...
... who was an aedile in 202 B.C. His grandfather, L. Licinius Lucullus, was the first member of the family to reach the consulship (151 B.C.) and thus confer nobility on the family. He gained an bad reputation for his conduct of war in Spain. His son L. Licinius Lucullus was praetor in 104 B.C. and he ...
Άλλα Ονόματα Τόπος και Χρόνος Γέννησης Τόπος και Χρόνος
... who was an aedile in 202 B.C. His grandfather, L. Licinius Lucullus, was the first member of the family to reach the consulship (151 B.C.) and thus confer nobility on the family. He gained an bad reputation for his conduct of war in Spain. His son L. Licinius Lucullus was praetor in 104 B.C. and he ...
... who was an aedile in 202 B.C. His grandfather, L. Licinius Lucullus, was the first member of the family to reach the consulship (151 B.C.) and thus confer nobility on the family. He gained an bad reputation for his conduct of war in Spain. His son L. Licinius Lucullus was praetor in 104 B.C. and he ...
Άλλα Ονόματα Τόπος και Χρόνος Γέννησης Τόπος και Χρόνος
... who was an aedile in 202 B.C. His grandfather, L. Licinius Lucullus, was the first member of the family to reach the consulship (151 B.C.) and thus confer nobility on the family. He gained an bad reputation for his conduct of war in Spain. His son L. Licinius Lucullus was praetor in 104 B.C. and he ...
... who was an aedile in 202 B.C. His grandfather, L. Licinius Lucullus, was the first member of the family to reach the consulship (151 B.C.) and thus confer nobility on the family. He gained an bad reputation for his conduct of war in Spain. His son L. Licinius Lucullus was praetor in 104 B.C. and he ...
The Contextual Audiences of Caesar`s De Bello Gallico
... within the ranks of the Roman people rather than in the Senate (Wiseman Population 3). This political division should however be approached with a number of caveats. The first is that at the time of De Bello Gallico’s composition, there was no clear labelled distinction between or official organizat ...
... within the ranks of the Roman people rather than in the Senate (Wiseman Population 3). This political division should however be approached with a number of caveats. The first is that at the time of De Bello Gallico’s composition, there was no clear labelled distinction between or official organizat ...
Gerald_A._Hess_Dissertation_2 - ETDA
... sacrifice. However, previous Hadrianic scholarship has been limited to addressing the tondi in a general way without fully considering their patron‘s personal history and deep seated motivations for wanting a monument with form and content akin to the prerogatives of eastern rulers and oriental prin ...
... sacrifice. However, previous Hadrianic scholarship has been limited to addressing the tondi in a general way without fully considering their patron‘s personal history and deep seated motivations for wanting a monument with form and content akin to the prerogatives of eastern rulers and oriental prin ...
The Connection between Caesar`s Writing and Fighting
... claimed: Caesar “fought fifty times in pitched battle, and alone surpassed Marcus Marcellus who fought thirty-nine” (NH 7.92). In Pliny’s mind, Caesar was fighting not just the enemy, but his own Roman predecessors, and handily outscored Marcellus, the great general of the Second Punic War. Though Pli ...
... claimed: Caesar “fought fifty times in pitched battle, and alone surpassed Marcus Marcellus who fought thirty-nine” (NH 7.92). In Pliny’s mind, Caesar was fighting not just the enemy, but his own Roman predecessors, and handily outscored Marcellus, the great general of the Second Punic War. Though Pli ...
A COMPANION TO THE ROMAN ARMY Edited by
... BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD This series provides sophisticated and authoritative overviews of periods of ancient history, genres of classical literature, and the most important themes in ancient culture. Each volume comprises between twenty-five and forty concise essays written by indi ...
... BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD This series provides sophisticated and authoritative overviews of periods of ancient history, genres of classical literature, and the most important themes in ancient culture. Each volume comprises between twenty-five and forty concise essays written by indi ...
Why did they do that? Takes on the PUNIC WARS by David E …
... hostile natives. You can ill afford to leave a fortified city, with an enemy port in it, standing to the rear of your advance. You must make allies as you go, or at least, leave them them in fear of your retribution. Reducing the city was your correct option. **** You made the right choice to captur ...
... hostile natives. You can ill afford to leave a fortified city, with an enemy port in it, standing to the rear of your advance. You must make allies as you go, or at least, leave them them in fear of your retribution. Reducing the city was your correct option. **** You made the right choice to captur ...
Tyrian Purple - Semantic Scholar
... color symbolism that has a widespread application. Complex cultural states are the perfect matrices for the development of color symbolism. The Roman Empire, which was able to achieve the greatest geographical expanse of the ancient Mediterranean states, provides a good example to demonstrate that d ...
... color symbolism that has a widespread application. Complex cultural states are the perfect matrices for the development of color symbolism. The Roman Empire, which was able to achieve the greatest geographical expanse of the ancient Mediterranean states, provides a good example to demonstrate that d ...
The Pen and the Sword: Writing and Conquest in Caesar`s Gaul
... claimed: Caesar “fought fifty times in pitched battle, and alone surpassed Marcus Marcellus who fought thirty-nine” (NH 7.92). In Pliny’s mind, Caesar was fighting not just the enemy, but his own Roman predecessors, and handily outscored Marcellus, the great general of the Second Punic War. Though Pli ...
... claimed: Caesar “fought fifty times in pitched battle, and alone surpassed Marcus Marcellus who fought thirty-nine” (NH 7.92). In Pliny’s mind, Caesar was fighting not just the enemy, but his own Roman predecessors, and handily outscored Marcellus, the great general of the Second Punic War. Though Pli ...
Julius Caesar Reading Guide
... The common people saw Caesar as a great warrior and strong ruler. Some of the senators, however, feared that he would become too powerful and rule like a king. Caesar had won battles in Greece, Asia Minor, Africa, Egypt, Spain and Gaul (France). His final victory was over Pompey’s two sons. Shakespe ...
... The common people saw Caesar as a great warrior and strong ruler. Some of the senators, however, feared that he would become too powerful and rule like a king. Caesar had won battles in Greece, Asia Minor, Africa, Egypt, Spain and Gaul (France). His final victory was over Pompey’s two sons. Shakespe ...
Authority, originality and competence in the Roman Archaeology of
... short, the whole … ancient life of the city’) in a way which combines variety, edification and entertainment. Only at the very end of the preface does he name himself: the impact of this delayed self-naming is all the greater for its reversal of the historiographical norm as established by such wr ...
... short, the whole … ancient life of the city’) in a way which combines variety, edification and entertainment. Only at the very end of the preface does he name himself: the impact of this delayed self-naming is all the greater for its reversal of the historiographical norm as established by such wr ...
Volume Two - McMaster University, Canada
... manner in which Niebuhr himself would have done it, if the thought of pblishing his lectures had occurred to him. Honourable as this feeling is, still, if we were to wait till any of Niebuhrls pupils could, without presumption, say that he was to his master, the lectures would in all probability rem ...
... manner in which Niebuhr himself would have done it, if the thought of pblishing his lectures had occurred to him. Honourable as this feeling is, still, if we were to wait till any of Niebuhrls pupils could, without presumption, say that he was to his master, the lectures would in all probability rem ...
Some Minor Magistrates of the Roman Republic
... 180 of the individuals who held the curule and plebeian aedileships in the period prior to the passage of the Lex Villia Annalis alone. Their names are frequently preserved by Livy, most often during his standard, annalistic accounts of the magistrates elected in each year and their assignments. Bo ...
... 180 of the individuals who held the curule and plebeian aedileships in the period prior to the passage of the Lex Villia Annalis alone. Their names are frequently preserved by Livy, most often during his standard, annalistic accounts of the magistrates elected in each year and their assignments. Bo ...
LIVY, VEII, AND ROME: AB URBE CONDITA, BOOK V by KARL
... and yelling at the Roman troops (5.15.4). Apparently, it was an Etruscan custom that soothsayers would yell prophecies to Roman troops and allow themselves to be captured; the same thing is reported in relation to the capture of Fidenae a few decades before (4.22.4-6; 5.1921). More doubt is cast on ...
... and yelling at the Roman troops (5.15.4). Apparently, it was an Etruscan custom that soothsayers would yell prophecies to Roman troops and allow themselves to be captured; the same thing is reported in relation to the capture of Fidenae a few decades before (4.22.4-6; 5.1921). More doubt is cast on ...