History of Roman Literature from its Earliest
... by the reception of similar impressions, and the excitement of similar emotions. Still, however, the history of any part of ancient literature is, in respect of its influence on the condition of states, far less important than that of modern nations. From the high price and scarcity of books, a rest ...
... by the reception of similar impressions, and the excitement of similar emotions. Still, however, the history of any part of ancient literature is, in respect of its influence on the condition of states, far less important than that of modern nations. From the high price and scarcity of books, a rest ...
Roman Imports in the Space of Southern Dacia (2 century BC – 1
... The pieces of the museums are also inventoried, along with the studies and articles mentioned in the bibliography though this approach is far from being completed. There is a large number of unpublished objects which can be found in the archives of the museums or in private collections. The term imp ...
... The pieces of the museums are also inventoried, along with the studies and articles mentioned in the bibliography though this approach is far from being completed. There is a large number of unpublished objects which can be found in the archives of the museums or in private collections. The term imp ...
Thesis
... And he (i.e., Numa) chose Vestal Virgins, a priesthood originating in Alba and by no means foreign to the nation of the founder. He set up a stipend from the public treasury for these women so that the priestesses might be at the temple regularly; he made them honorable and sacred by their virginity ...
... And he (i.e., Numa) chose Vestal Virgins, a priesthood originating in Alba and by no means foreign to the nation of the founder. He set up a stipend from the public treasury for these women so that the priestesses might be at the temple regularly; he made them honorable and sacred by their virginity ...
The Roman Salute - The Ohio State University
... modern straight-arm salute. Until comparatively recently, historians have tended to neglect modern popular culture in general and the cinema in particular; as a result, misconceptions about the origin of the Roman salute have remained unexamined and uncorrected. This book refutes the distortions of ...
... modern straight-arm salute. Until comparatively recently, historians have tended to neglect modern popular culture in general and the cinema in particular; as a result, misconceptions about the origin of the Roman salute have remained unexamined and uncorrected. This book refutes the distortions of ...
Cato the Elder Essay - 2010
... only books written in Latin and about farming of the ancient Romans, a big help to many historians wanting to know about agriculture at that time. Cato’s enemies and those he disliked pushed him forward when following Roman virtue, and through it, he was able to create a better foundation for his op ...
... only books written in Latin and about farming of the ancient Romans, a big help to many historians wanting to know about agriculture at that time. Cato’s enemies and those he disliked pushed him forward when following Roman virtue, and through it, he was able to create a better foundation for his op ...
Rome`s vestal virgins: public spectacle and society
... Sea, Britain and substantial portions of the modern Middle East.1 The central location of the Italian peninsula and Rome was well suited to function as the capital of this ‘Middle Sea’, which effectively became a Roman lake following the advent of expansion outside of Italy during the third century ...
... Sea, Britain and substantial portions of the modern Middle East.1 The central location of the Italian peninsula and Rome was well suited to function as the capital of this ‘Middle Sea’, which effectively became a Roman lake following the advent of expansion outside of Italy during the third century ...
Marcus Tullius Cicero
... Marcus Tullius Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero was born in 106 BC, hailing from a local equestrian family in Arpinum. Both Cicero and Pompey, who became associates at a very young age, struggled to detach themselves from the Marian clan that held the foremost political position in the region. While bot ...
... Marcus Tullius Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero was born in 106 BC, hailing from a local equestrian family in Arpinum. Both Cicero and Pompey, who became associates at a very young age, struggled to detach themselves from the Marian clan that held the foremost political position in the region. While bot ...
From Triumphal Gates to Triumphant Rotting: Refractions of Rome in
... approach to each one without imposing an overall framework on her analyses. Her book offers a glimpse into the pervasiveness of classical interests and influences on a variety of important poets of this period. Another important work devoted to classical reception in Russian is Marinus Wes’s Classi ...
... approach to each one without imposing an overall framework on her analyses. Her book offers a glimpse into the pervasiveness of classical interests and influences on a variety of important poets of this period. Another important work devoted to classical reception in Russian is Marinus Wes’s Classi ...
Tilburg University The jurisdiction of the pontiff in the Roman
... Prof. Randall Lesaffer has made more of a difference than he perhaps knows. He was there when I needed him, had inspiring ideas and kept me going by showing an interest in the progress I was making. Moreover, and more ...
... Prof. Randall Lesaffer has made more of a difference than he perhaps knows. He was there when I needed him, had inspiring ideas and kept me going by showing an interest in the progress I was making. Moreover, and more ...
Tom Cox - Gorffennol
... allows his men to inflict atrocities, emphasised by Livy’s use of dramatic rhetoric to maintain the interest of the reader . The contrast is obvious between the morality of Rome and Carthage’s lack of such virtue. Publius Scipio is used by Livy as a mouthpiece and an idealistic Roman, highlighted by ...
... allows his men to inflict atrocities, emphasised by Livy’s use of dramatic rhetoric to maintain the interest of the reader . The contrast is obvious between the morality of Rome and Carthage’s lack of such virtue. Publius Scipio is used by Livy as a mouthpiece and an idealistic Roman, highlighted by ...
Spartacus
... Ancient Rome had a lot of marvels. Back in its heyday, the Romans put up many spectacular structures. Some of them still remain (1) _______________________ today. As we admire the civilization that ancient Rome left behind, we must keep one thing in mind. Rome's glory was built largely on th ...
... Ancient Rome had a lot of marvels. Back in its heyday, the Romans put up many spectacular structures. Some of them still remain (1) _______________________ today. As we admire the civilization that ancient Rome left behind, we must keep one thing in mind. Rome's glory was built largely on th ...
Masters.Thesis.Tunc.Turel.2
... provinces were interrupted due to barbarian incursions and thus the empire’s ability to recruit men for the army was undermined. For an empire of which continuity in far provinces depended entirely on the presence of its army to protect Roman landowners’ posessions, to be deprived of its military mu ...
... provinces were interrupted due to barbarian incursions and thus the empire’s ability to recruit men for the army was undermined. For an empire of which continuity in far provinces depended entirely on the presence of its army to protect Roman landowners’ posessions, to be deprived of its military mu ...
Dissertation - Emory University
... Rome from the first century B.C.E. through the Imperial period. With little or no access to other forms of public, monumental self-representation, freedmen used funerary monuments to give shape to their social and commemorative concerns. These concerns revolve primarily around assimilation into Roma ...
... Rome from the first century B.C.E. through the Imperial period. With little or no access to other forms of public, monumental self-representation, freedmen used funerary monuments to give shape to their social and commemorative concerns. These concerns revolve primarily around assimilation into Roma ...
cicero and the roman civic spirit in the middle aces and early
... pursued literary aims in his ' otium '. If he attained to highest activity in solitude, this could only mean that he devoted his ' otium ' to consideration of the vast plans which guided him in building up the Roman Empire. ' In otio de negotio cogitabat.' Cicero himself, in his long enforced ' otiu ...
... pursued literary aims in his ' otium '. If he attained to highest activity in solitude, this could only mean that he devoted his ' otium ' to consideration of the vast plans which guided him in building up the Roman Empire. ' In otio de negotio cogitabat.' Cicero himself, in his long enforced ' otiu ...
PDF-1 - RUcore
... of the Principate and into the Early Imperial period, especially with the return to domesticity that the Augustan Principate envisioned. The sentiment and nostalgia on which this moral movement thrived were calculated to achieve a new order of the ages, however, their renewed prominence under August ...
... of the Principate and into the Early Imperial period, especially with the return to domesticity that the Augustan Principate envisioned. The sentiment and nostalgia on which this moral movement thrived were calculated to achieve a new order of the ages, however, their renewed prominence under August ...
Jupiter`s Legacy: The Symbol of the Eagle and Thunderbolt in
... symbols had profound cultural significance to the ancients. At first one may think that what was sacred for the Romans has no bearing on modern society, but in truth these icons retain much of their meaning and importance even over two-thousand years later. The Western world has been obsessed with a ...
... symbols had profound cultural significance to the ancients. At first one may think that what was sacred for the Romans has no bearing on modern society, but in truth these icons retain much of their meaning and importance even over two-thousand years later. The Western world has been obsessed with a ...
Some Minor Magistrates of the Roman Republic
... by what it was in itself, but as opening the path for men who had risen from the ranks to consulships and triumphs. The patricians on the other hand were indignant; they felt that they were not so much giving a share of the honours of the State as losing them altogether. "If," they said, "this is th ...
... by what it was in itself, but as opening the path for men who had risen from the ranks to consulships and triumphs. The patricians on the other hand were indignant; they felt that they were not so much giving a share of the honours of the State as losing them altogether. "If," they said, "this is th ...
Jupiter`s Legacy: The Symbol of the Eagle and Thunderbolt in
... symbols had profound cultural significance to the ancients. At first one may think that what was sacred for the Romans has no bearing on modern society, but in truth these icons retain much of their meaning and importance even over two-thousand years later. The Western world has been obsessed with a ...
... symbols had profound cultural significance to the ancients. At first one may think that what was sacred for the Romans has no bearing on modern society, but in truth these icons retain much of their meaning and importance even over two-thousand years later. The Western world has been obsessed with a ...
The Grand Strategy: A Study on Hannibal`s Stratagem During the
... control, were soon seeing heavy fighting as Roman land forces began to displace Carthaginian forces. 28 For most of the war the Carthaginian navy had been unmatched, but Rome soon began constructing its own navy. After suffering a series of defeats the Roman navy developed a new weapon called the c ...
... control, were soon seeing heavy fighting as Roman land forces began to displace Carthaginian forces. 28 For most of the war the Carthaginian navy had been unmatched, but Rome soon began constructing its own navy. After suffering a series of defeats the Roman navy developed a new weapon called the c ...
Essay One - Crassus Marcus Licinius Crassus, one of the thr
... ion of provinces" - found himself opposed in his efforts to obtain free public lands to reward his soldiers. It was Caesar, in recognising the two men's needs, who reconciled them and the three band ed together in what would be known in the future as the first triumvirate. Caesar used the wealth o f ...
... ion of provinces" - found himself opposed in his efforts to obtain free public lands to reward his soldiers. It was Caesar, in recognising the two men's needs, who reconciled them and the three band ed together in what would be known in the future as the first triumvirate. Caesar used the wealth o f ...
ISBN: 978-0-9861084-1-9 - Classical Wisdom Weekly
... While they still held a considerable amount of land, Parthia’s empire was initially not as large as the Seleucid empire, though they gradually conquered the latter’s territory. In the end, the Parthians ruled from the borders of India to the frontiers of Armenia, and from fringes of Central Asia to ...
... While they still held a considerable amount of land, Parthia’s empire was initially not as large as the Seleucid empire, though they gradually conquered the latter’s territory. In the end, the Parthians ruled from the borders of India to the frontiers of Armenia, and from fringes of Central Asia to ...
final_draft_velle
... Prior to this conventional career, an equally conventional education may be surmised. Many of his acquaintances during his army career would have come from similar backgrounds: comfortable equestrian families who could afford to provide their sons with an education appropriate to their status. Thou ...
... Prior to this conventional career, an equally conventional education may be surmised. Many of his acquaintances during his army career would have come from similar backgrounds: comfortable equestrian families who could afford to provide their sons with an education appropriate to their status. Thou ...
Sulla`s Tabularium - UWSpace
... Pontifex Maximus, who assumed the most important of the king’s religious obligations. The Vestals were Rome’s family and the Pontifex their Paterfamilias. 31 Rome suffered a humiliating defeat in 390 when a marauding army of Gauls sacked the city. This event left deep scars in Rome’s memory; more th ...
... Pontifex Maximus, who assumed the most important of the king’s religious obligations. The Vestals were Rome’s family and the Pontifex their Paterfamilias. 31 Rome suffered a humiliating defeat in 390 when a marauding army of Gauls sacked the city. This event left deep scars in Rome’s memory; more th ...
The Good, the Bad, and the Barbari: A Comparison of
... Ammianus’ narrative with Tacitus’, but the Res Gestae opposes the view of the Germania with the Alamanni being a violent society due to “social insecurity resulting from chronic poverty… [and] would fight each other and the Roman Empire not out of malice… but because they felt they had to.”32 The Al ...
... Ammianus’ narrative with Tacitus’, but the Res Gestae opposes the view of the Germania with the Alamanni being a violent society due to “social insecurity resulting from chronic poverty… [and] would fight each other and the Roman Empire not out of malice… but because they felt they had to.”32 The Al ...
barbarian migrations and the roman west, 376–568
... additional thanks. In the reinterpretation of ‘Germanic’ archaeology I have benefited from discussions with, and the encouragement of fellow-subversives: Sebastian Brather, Frans Theuws and Philipp von Rummel (vive la révolution!). Philipp also read the entire book in draft and made numerous helpfu ...
... additional thanks. In the reinterpretation of ‘Germanic’ archaeology I have benefited from discussions with, and the encouragement of fellow-subversives: Sebastian Brather, Frans Theuws and Philipp von Rummel (vive la révolution!). Philipp also read the entire book in draft and made numerous helpfu ...
Military of ancient Rome
The Roman military was intertwined with the Roman state much more closely than in a modern European nation. Josephus describes the Roman people being as if they were ""born ready armed,"" and the Romans were for long periods prepared to engage in almost continuous warfare, absorbing massive losses. For a large part of Rome's history, the Roman state existed as an entity almost solely to support and finance the Roman military.The military's campaign history stretched over 1300 years and saw Roman armies campaigning as far East as Parthia (modern-day Iran), as far south as Africa (modern-day Tunisia) and Aegyptus (modern-day Egypt) and as far north as Britannia (modern-day England, south Scotland, and Wales). The makeup of the Roman military changed substantially over its history, from its early history as an unsalaried citizen militia to a later professional force. The equipment used by the military altered greatly in type over time, though there were very few technological improvements in weapons manufacture, in common with the rest of the classical world. For much of its history, the vast majority of Rome's forces were maintained at or beyond the limits of its territory, in order to either expand Rome's domain, or protect its existing borders.