Tilburg University The jurisdiction of the pontiff in the Roman
... 5 This antithesis may seem rather exaggerated, but papers presented at a conference organized by and for Romanists clearly differ from those presented at one organized by and for Historians. These differences become even more manifest at conferences where both Historians and Romanists present papers ...
... 5 This antithesis may seem rather exaggerated, but papers presented at a conference organized by and for Romanists clearly differ from those presented at one organized by and for Historians. These differences become even more manifest at conferences where both Historians and Romanists present papers ...
The developmentof early imperial dress from the Tetrachs to the
... on Constantine’s Triumphal Arch, the Theodosian Missorium, and imperial diptychs such as the Barberini panel or Trier ivory were large enough to accurately show clothing style and even a fabric’s pattern. But because all of these works are two dimensional, they depict dress only from a single point ...
... on Constantine’s Triumphal Arch, the Theodosian Missorium, and imperial diptychs such as the Barberini panel or Trier ivory were large enough to accurately show clothing style and even a fabric’s pattern. But because all of these works are two dimensional, they depict dress only from a single point ...
The Public Image of the Later Severans: Caracalla to
... particular events, but adhered to the general themes of legitimisation, including security, and public benefaction. Methodology The public image of the Severans will be analysed by primarily examining those objects or materials which contained messages about the emperor and which were readily availa ...
... particular events, but adhered to the general themes of legitimisation, including security, and public benefaction. Methodology The public image of the Severans will be analysed by primarily examining those objects or materials which contained messages about the emperor and which were readily availa ...
Fides Romana - Otago University Research Archive
... not shaped by the Senate but by individual commanders in the field. His thesis is not necessarily novel; his basic argument supports part of both Richardson’s and Harris’. Individuals made their own decisions when faced with the reality of the situation. Eckstein argues that this was possible due to ...
... not shaped by the Senate but by individual commanders in the field. His thesis is not necessarily novel; his basic argument supports part of both Richardson’s and Harris’. Individuals made their own decisions when faced with the reality of the situation. Eckstein argues that this was possible due to ...
Tyrian Purple - Semantic Scholar
... Rome was a latecomer to the social exercise of displaying Tyrian purple as a status symbol. While the Phoenicians were spreading their product and industrial infrastructure around the Mediterranean basin in the early half of the first millennium BCE, Rome was an insignificant town on the Tiber. Slow ...
... Rome was a latecomer to the social exercise of displaying Tyrian purple as a status symbol. While the Phoenicians were spreading their product and industrial infrastructure around the Mediterranean basin in the early half of the first millennium BCE, Rome was an insignificant town on the Tiber. Slow ...
Tom Cox - Gorffennol
... chronology of Livy’s sources were recorded, with Roman sources based on consular years and Greek sources not, causing him difficulties in reconciling them.24 This is evident at Saguntum where Livy places the capture of the city in 218BC instead of 219BC, more than likely due to following a wrong sou ...
... chronology of Livy’s sources were recorded, with Roman sources based on consular years and Greek sources not, causing him difficulties in reconciling them.24 This is evident at Saguntum where Livy places the capture of the city in 218BC instead of 219BC, more than likely due to following a wrong sou ...
The Spartacus War. - Michigan War Studies Review
... against Roman hegemony (like the two “thieves” crucified alongside Jesus). Strauss leans towards this reconstruction of Spartacus’ early career. But the term could as easily designate a simple highway robber. In any case, Marcus Terentius Varro, an excellent scholar and contemporary of the rebellion ...
... against Roman hegemony (like the two “thieves” crucified alongside Jesus). Strauss leans towards this reconstruction of Spartacus’ early career. But the term could as easily designate a simple highway robber. In any case, Marcus Terentius Varro, an excellent scholar and contemporary of the rebellion ...
imageREAL Capture
... conquest of Italy itself was scarcely completed. It seems, on the face of it at least, unlikely that in the circumstances of the time there would have been any crying need for a new judicial officer to concern himself with cases involving litigants who were not Roman citizens, while the praetor urba ...
... conquest of Italy itself was scarcely completed. It seems, on the face of it at least, unlikely that in the circumstances of the time there would have been any crying need for a new judicial officer to concern himself with cases involving litigants who were not Roman citizens, while the praetor urba ...
THE SAMNITE LEGACY: - University of Lethbridge
... maniple system. Among those contributions omitted are the Samnite influences on Roman foreign policy, land reforms, and the emergence of a patrician-plebian aristocracy.4 While these adaptations prove to be due to indirect Samnite influence rather than any perceived Samnitic origin, this is not the ...
... maniple system. Among those contributions omitted are the Samnite influences on Roman foreign policy, land reforms, and the emergence of a patrician-plebian aristocracy.4 While these adaptations prove to be due to indirect Samnite influence rather than any perceived Samnitic origin, this is not the ...
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 ...
History of Roman Literature from its Earliest
... and the other circumstances of their condition;—the peculiarities of their literature, its peculiar origination, and the peculiar effects which it produced. The literature of a people may indeed, in one sense, be regarded as the most attractive feature of its history. It is at once the effect of lei ...
... and the other circumstances of their condition;—the peculiarities of their literature, its peculiar origination, and the peculiar effects which it produced. The literature of a people may indeed, in one sense, be regarded as the most attractive feature of its history. It is at once the effect of lei ...
Tracing the Antinous Cult - UvA-DARE
... religious function will be presented; coupled with their place of discovery, the pattern of their distribution will provide this investigation with a framework upon which the further arguments of the second and third chapter can be built. But before engaging in this reconstructive enterprise, we mus ...
... religious function will be presented; coupled with their place of discovery, the pattern of their distribution will provide this investigation with a framework upon which the further arguments of the second and third chapter can be built. But before engaging in this reconstructive enterprise, we mus ...
University of Alberta Bithynia - Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
... this point the historical narrative shifts to a more intense examination of the state of affairs in the province, made possible by the extant correspondence of Pliny the Younger. The tenth book of Pliny 's letters contains the most detailed information on this province, which presented complex probl ...
... this point the historical narrative shifts to a more intense examination of the state of affairs in the province, made possible by the extant correspondence of Pliny the Younger. The tenth book of Pliny 's letters contains the most detailed information on this province, which presented complex probl ...
cicero and the roman civic spirit in the middle aces and early
... CICERO AND THE ROMAN CIVIC SPIRIT 75 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.' Cicer ...
... CICERO AND THE ROMAN CIVIC SPIRIT 75 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.' Cicer ...
Jupiter`s Legacy: The Symbol of the Eagle and Thunderbolt in
... The thunderbolt and the eagle, the armament and armour-bearer of Jupiter – these 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 importan ...
... The thunderbolt and the eagle, the armament and armour-bearer of Jupiter – these 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 importan ...
The Roman Salute - The Ohio State University
... National Fascist Party] insisted on the adoption of the virile Roman straight-armed salute in place of the degenerate, effeminate (and germridden) bourgeois handshake.” This statement is correct in mentioning the Fascists’ contempt for the traditional—and entirely unpolitical— custom of shaking han ...
... National Fascist Party] insisted on the adoption of the virile Roman straight-armed salute in place of the degenerate, effeminate (and germridden) bourgeois handshake.” This statement is correct in mentioning the Fascists’ contempt for the traditional—and entirely unpolitical— custom of shaking han ...
Jupiter`s Legacy: The Symbol of the Eagle and Thunderbolt in
... The thunderbolt and the eagle, the armament and armour-bearer of Jupiter – these 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 importan ...
... The thunderbolt and the eagle, the armament and armour-bearer of Jupiter – these 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 importan ...
Roman Imports in the Space of Southern Dacia (2 century BC – 1
... and Greek civilizations, the author insisting mainly on the Greek factor which was better known due to the greater number of archaeological discoveries in Dobrogea and elsewhere. However, the volume Dacia. The ancient civilizations from the Carpathians-Danube countries consists of a chapter wholly d ...
... and Greek civilizations, the author insisting mainly on the Greek factor which was better known due to the greater number of archaeological discoveries in Dobrogea and elsewhere. However, the volume Dacia. The ancient civilizations from the Carpathians-Danube countries consists of a chapter wholly d ...
Daqin
Daqin (Chinese: 大秦; pinyin: Dàqín; Wade–Giles: Ta4-ch'in2; alternative transliterations include Tachin, Tai-Ch'in) is the ancient Chinese name for the Roman Empire or, depending on context, the Near East, especially Syria. It literally means ""Great Qin"", Qin (Chinese: 秦; pinyin: Qín; Wade–Giles: Ch'in2) being the name of the founding dynasty of the Chinese Empire. Historian John Foster defined it as ""...the Roman Empire, or rather that part of it which alone was known to the Chinese, Syria.""