Authority, originality and competence in the Roman Archaeology of
... Polybius of course explicitly excludes from his own history that concerning genealogies and tales and colonisations, also kinships and foundations… (Pol. ..) Dionysius, on the other hand, intimates inclusiveness: ‘who the founders of the city were’ points at genealogy; when and why they came prom ...
... Polybius of course explicitly excludes from his own history that concerning genealogies and tales and colonisations, also kinships and foundations… (Pol. ..) Dionysius, on the other hand, intimates inclusiveness: ‘who the founders of the city were’ points at genealogy; when and why they came prom ...
Narrative and Notice in Livy`s Fourth Decade: The Case of Scipio
... Africanus’ later years only to dismiss them as insufficient to attain to the heights of the Punic war, the single formative success of Africanus’ youth. Livy’s explanation of the decline, however, deserves further attention. In everything that came after the Punic war, a period that Livy elides with o ...
... Africanus’ later years only to dismiss them as insufficient to attain to the heights of the Punic war, the single formative success of Africanus’ youth. Livy’s explanation of the decline, however, deserves further attention. In everything that came after the Punic war, a period that Livy elides with o ...
Jean Bodin on Sovereignty - Arcade
... appoint provincial governors, and award honors, which are “the great points of sovereignty [majesté].”11 Whereas the Roman Republic had an aristocratic government (until the time of the Gracchi) to balance popular sovereignty, Athens, after Pericles’s abolition of its aristocratic Areopagus, had bot ...
... appoint provincial governors, and award honors, which are “the great points of sovereignty [majesté].”11 Whereas the Roman Republic had an aristocratic government (until the time of the Gracchi) to balance popular sovereignty, Athens, after Pericles’s abolition of its aristocratic Areopagus, had bot ...
Where Britten`s Opera Departs and Returns
... It was not lost on the Romans that much of their whole early history hinged on tales of two rapes, that of the Sabine Women at the beginning of Rome and that of Lucretia at the beginning of the Roman republic two and a half centuries later; these tumultuous events were connected spectacles witnessin ...
... It was not lost on the Romans that much of their whole early history hinged on tales of two rapes, that of the Sabine Women at the beginning of Rome and that of Lucretia at the beginning of the Roman republic two and a half centuries later; these tumultuous events were connected spectacles witnessin ...
Power and Status in the Roman Empire, AD 193-284
... ‘ / ’ means that a person held a post for an unspecified period between and . ‘–’ means that a person held an office from until . ...
... ‘ / ’ means that a person held a post for an unspecified period between and . ‘–’ means that a person held an office from until . ...
Power and Status in the Roman Empire, ad 193–284
... ‘ / ’ means that a person held a post for an unspecified period between and . ‘–’ means that a person held an office from until . ...
... ‘ / ’ means that a person held a post for an unspecified period between and . ‘–’ means that a person held an office from until . ...
Hannibal, soldier, statesman, patriot, and the crisis of the struggle
... he has a true military eye stood war, especially on its moral side he sincerely he was not far removed from admired Hannibal Hannibal's time. We only possess his complete narrative of the Second Punic War to the end of the battle of Cannae; but considerable fragments ...
... he has a true military eye stood war, especially on its moral side he sincerely he was not far removed from admired Hannibal Hannibal's time. We only possess his complete narrative of the Second Punic War to the end of the battle of Cannae; but considerable fragments ...
Hannibal - Feric
... The Romans gained their first overseas province and became increasingly interested in expanding their empire. The Romans also suffered heavy losses in manpower, trade and agriculture. Carthage’s loss in the First Punic War was to have a significant effect on Hannibal’s life. The Carthaginians had to ...
... The Romans gained their first overseas province and became increasingly interested in expanding their empire. The Romans also suffered heavy losses in manpower, trade and agriculture. Carthage’s loss in the First Punic War was to have a significant effect on Hannibal’s life. The Carthaginians had to ...
History of Roman Literature from its Earliest
... its allies to furnish vessels of war, and trusted to its naval armaments for the supremacy it maintained during the brightest ages of Greece. In none either of the Doric or Ionian states, was agriculture of such importance as to exercise much influence on manners or literature. Their territories wer ...
... its allies to furnish vessels of war, and trusted to its naval armaments for the supremacy it maintained during the brightest ages of Greece. In none either of the Doric or Ionian states, was agriculture of such importance as to exercise much influence on manners or literature. Their territories wer ...
74938 - Radboud Repository
... emperor Commodus, the Empire experienced a period of increasing instability, as a growing number of internal and external military threats, epidemics, and banditry pressured the imperial treasury and the existing administrative system. Modern scholars have accepted that the events of the third centu ...
... emperor Commodus, the Empire experienced a period of increasing instability, as a growing number of internal and external military threats, epidemics, and banditry pressured the imperial treasury and the existing administrative system. Modern scholars have accepted that the events of the third centu ...
Coriolanus: The Tragedy of Virtus
... its most spectacular action early, but by doing so he brushes aside in the hurly-burly of battle the questions raised about why Coriolanus is as he is, before they can become dominant. Instead, the martial vigour of the protagonist is matched with the conquering impulse of the youthful Roman state. ...
... its most spectacular action early, but by doing so he brushes aside in the hurly-burly of battle the questions raised about why Coriolanus is as he is, before they can become dominant. Instead, the martial vigour of the protagonist is matched with the conquering impulse of the youthful Roman state. ...
CICERO`S HISTORICAL APPROACH TO THE BEST REGIME David
... and the result was only a “quasi-senate” (Rep. 2.15). Scipio seems to suggest that it was enough for Romulus to understand the governing principle behind the institution: when a senate exists to provide “authority and deliberation” (Rep. 2.14), the king’s power is not so “dominating” as it would oth ...
... and the result was only a “quasi-senate” (Rep. 2.15). Scipio seems to suggest that it was enough for Romulus to understand the governing principle behind the institution: when a senate exists to provide “authority and deliberation” (Rep. 2.14), the king’s power is not so “dominating” as it would oth ...
The Propaganda of Vespasian
... personified in sculptural propaganda the peace that Vespasian, in political propaganda, claimed he had brought to Rome after his Jewish Wars victories. These authors represent the monumental efforts that Roman and later historians have gone through to preserve the history of one of Italy's most cele ...
... personified in sculptural propaganda the peace that Vespasian, in political propaganda, claimed he had brought to Rome after his Jewish Wars victories. These authors represent the monumental efforts that Roman and later historians have gone through to preserve the history of one of Italy's most cele ...
Kent Academic Repository
... century B.C.1 The flexible nature of these expressions, in particular popularis, resulted in unstable and incomplete definitions of the key terms. This issue is succinctly demonstrated by the numerous interpretations provided within The Oxford Latin Dictionary. These range from genuine popularity to ...
... century B.C.1 The flexible nature of these expressions, in particular popularis, resulted in unstable and incomplete definitions of the key terms. This issue is succinctly demonstrated by the numerous interpretations provided within The Oxford Latin Dictionary. These range from genuine popularity to ...
PDF-1 - RUcore - Rutgers University
... Dissertation Director: Prof. T. Corey Brennan Crisis, as a modern phenomenon, is universal. However, there has never been a study of crisis as a phenomenon in the Roman world. The following study fills this gap for the period of the Republic. Chapter 1 begins with a general introduction, covering me ...
... Dissertation Director: Prof. T. Corey Brennan Crisis, as a modern phenomenon, is universal. However, there has never been a study of crisis as a phenomenon in the Roman world. The following study fills this gap for the period of the Republic. Chapter 1 begins with a general introduction, covering me ...
Vestal Virgins of Rome: Images Of Power
... archives, and stored the wills of emperors,35 could not be put under oath by a praetor.36 These legal rights, in particular the storage of wills of emperors, expanded as the political scene developed. Eventually, the Vestals could help create political connections. 37 These functions were highly sig ...
... archives, and stored the wills of emperors,35 could not be put under oath by a praetor.36 These legal rights, in particular the storage of wills of emperors, expanded as the political scene developed. Eventually, the Vestals could help create political connections. 37 These functions were highly sig ...
Shakespeare`s Four Roman Plays Fall Semester 2016 Page 1 of
... The dramatis personae (the plays’ characters, literally “the masks of the drama”) often refer to themselves in the third person. Roman rhetoric plays an important part. Characters know they are participating in events that will change history. (Historically is in quotes, above, because we can’t know ...
... The dramatis personae (the plays’ characters, literally “the masks of the drama”) often refer to themselves in the third person. Roman rhetoric plays an important part. Characters know they are participating in events that will change history. (Historically is in quotes, above, because we can’t know ...
RG38_Uhlir_theses_2016
... Shakespeare amends Plutarch’s account of Coriolanus to reflect the early 17th century rising price of cereals; whereas in Lives, the revolt stems from usury, Shakespeare centers the disquiet around famine cau ...
... Shakespeare amends Plutarch’s account of Coriolanus to reflect the early 17th century rising price of cereals; whereas in Lives, the revolt stems from usury, Shakespeare centers the disquiet around famine cau ...
Ibid. - meguca.org
... So too the values that gave breath to the Republic itself, the desires of its citizens, the rituals and codes of their behaviour. Understand these and much that strikes us as abhorrent about the Romans, actions which to our way of thinking are self-evidently crimes, can be, if not forgiven, then at ...
... So too the values that gave breath to the Republic itself, the desires of its citizens, the rituals and codes of their behaviour. Understand these and much that strikes us as abhorrent about the Romans, actions which to our way of thinking are self-evidently crimes, can be, if not forgiven, then at ...
Mason Tjuanta - 2010
... smothered Tiberius to allow Caligula to become emperor. His estate was left to Caligula and his grandson Tiberius Gemellus. With the help of Macro, Caligula had Gemellus’ half of the will nullified. The Roman people were pleased with the new Emperor. Caligula’s first seven months as emperor were ecs ...
... smothered Tiberius to allow Caligula to become emperor. His estate was left to Caligula and his grandson Tiberius Gemellus. With the help of Macro, Caligula had Gemellus’ half of the will nullified. The Roman people were pleased with the new Emperor. Caligula’s first seven months as emperor were ecs ...
Introduction
... Greece in order to gain first-hand experience for parts of the poem that he intended to modify. During the voyage, however, he was taken ill and was forced to return to Italy, where he died a few days later at Brundisium. He left instructions for the Aeneid to be burnt, but Augustus, who had alread ...
... Greece in order to gain first-hand experience for parts of the poem that he intended to modify. During the voyage, however, he was taken ill and was forced to return to Italy, where he died a few days later at Brundisium. He left instructions for the Aeneid to be burnt, but Augustus, who had alread ...
Introduction
... modify. During the voyage, however, he was taken ill and was forced to return to Italy, where he died a few days later at Brundisium. He left instructions for the Aeneid to be burnt, but Augustus, who had already been treated to private readings of Books 2, 4 and 6 ordered that the work be published ...
... modify. During the voyage, however, he was taken ill and was forced to return to Italy, where he died a few days later at Brundisium. He left instructions for the Aeneid to be burnt, but Augustus, who had already been treated to private readings of Books 2, 4 and 6 ordered that the work be published ...
Roman economy
The history of the Roman economy covers the period of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. Recent research has led to a positive reevaluation of the size and sophistication of the Roman economy.Moses Finley was the chief proponent of the primitivist view that the Roman economy was ""underdeveloped and underachieving,"" characterized by subsistence agriculture; urban centres that consumed more than they produced in terms of trade and industry; low-status artisans; slowly developing technology; and a ""lack of economic rationality."" Current views are more complex. Territorial conquests permitted a large-scale reorganization of land use that resulted in agricultural surplus and specialization, particularly in north Africa. Some cities were known for particular industries or commercial activities, and the scale of building in urban areas indicates a significant construction industry. Papyri preserve complex accounting methods that suggest elements of economic rationalism, and the Empire was highly monetized. Although the means of communication and transport were limited in antiquity, transportation in the 1st and 2nd centuries expanded greatly, and trade routes connected regional economies. The supply contracts for the army, which pervaded every part of the Empire, drew on local suppliers near the base (castrum), throughout the province, and across provincial borders. The Empire is perhaps best thought of as a network of regional economies, based on a form of ""political capitalism"" in which the state monitored and regulated commerce to assure its own revenues. Economic growth, though not comparable to modern economies, was greater than that of most other societies prior to industrialization.Socially, economic dynamism opened up one of the avenues of social mobility in the Roman Empire. Social advancement was thus not dependent solely on birth, patronage, good luck, or even extraordinary ability. Although aristocratic values permeated traditional elite society, a strong tendency toward plutocracy is indicated by the wealth requirements for census rank. Prestige could be obtained through investing one's wealth in ways that advertised it appropriately: grand country estates or townhouses, durable luxury items such as jewels and silverware, public entertainments, funerary monuments for family members or coworkers, and religious dedications such as altars. Guilds (collegia) and corporations (corpora) provided support for individuals to succeed through networking, sharing sound business practices, and a willingness to work.