Memnon of Herakleia on Rome and the Romans
... of anything after the sixteenth book” (FGrH 434 T 1).10 Photios saw a fragmentary work as worth epitomising and this makes our acquaintance with the original even more remote: not all of it is reflected in the Bibliotheca and what is presented has gone through the filter of Photios’ interests and ot ...
... of anything after the sixteenth book” (FGrH 434 T 1).10 Photios saw a fragmentary work as worth epitomising and this makes our acquaintance with the original even more remote: not all of it is reflected in the Bibliotheca and what is presented has gone through the filter of Photios’ interests and ot ...
Roman Isis and the Pendulum of Tolerance in the Empire
... After Alexander the Great’s expansion of the Greek empire to include Asia as far as India’s border, the Greeks more readily migrated to Asia and therefore became analogously associated with extravagance. The perceived excesses of Asia led to a demonstrable cultural dichotomy between residents of eas ...
... After Alexander the Great’s expansion of the Greek empire to include Asia as far as India’s border, the Greeks more readily migrated to Asia and therefore became analogously associated with extravagance. The perceived excesses of Asia led to a demonstrable cultural dichotomy between residents of eas ...
The Parthians of Augustan Rome - American Journal of Archaeology
... 20,000 men killed on the battlefield, Carrhae did not rival the death toll of Cannae, which appears to have been more than four times that number; but Carrhae was unique in that 10,000 Romans had been taken prisoner, and they would ultimately stay in Parthia for 33 years. Caesar was reportedly plann ...
... 20,000 men killed on the battlefield, Carrhae did not rival the death toll of Cannae, which appears to have been more than four times that number; but Carrhae was unique in that 10,000 Romans had been taken prisoner, and they would ultimately stay in Parthia for 33 years. Caesar was reportedly plann ...
The Roman Invasion of Britain
... and understand why these historians wrote their histories, and for whom. Apart from the odd occasional state-ments by ancient writers, the conquest of Britain was described only by Tacitus and Cassius Dio, but there is little comparison between them. Cassius Dio, a Greek, was more of a compiler than ...
... and understand why these historians wrote their histories, and for whom. Apart from the odd occasional state-ments by ancient writers, the conquest of Britain was described only by Tacitus and Cassius Dio, but there is little comparison between them. Cassius Dio, a Greek, was more of a compiler than ...
Boethius, Bk I - Pitzer College
... Christianity in Boethius’s day was different: It wasn't nearly as powerful as it would eventually become It was beset by divisions. Not just between the two Churches, but between groups with very different religious ideologies. First of all, there were fights over the appropriate books of the Bible. ...
... Christianity in Boethius’s day was different: It wasn't nearly as powerful as it would eventually become It was beset by divisions. Not just between the two Churches, but between groups with very different religious ideologies. First of all, there were fights over the appropriate books of the Bible. ...
sexual virtue, sexual vice, and the requirements of the
... Ovid, Plutarch, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus are among the classical writers whose reports of this incident remain extant. Standing behind this relatively large group of classical sources is the question whether the story is a fabrication from whole cloth or wether it represents the embellishment ...
... Ovid, Plutarch, and Dionysius of Halicarnassus are among the classical writers whose reports of this incident remain extant. Standing behind this relatively large group of classical sources is the question whether the story is a fabrication from whole cloth or wether it represents the embellishment ...
Competition Between Public and Private Revenues in Roman Social
... post quem of Roman history.6 One of Mommsen’s own students, however, Elimar Klebs, would begin work on the prosopographical entries in Pauly-Wissowa’s Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, a project which would shift the field from an analysis of institutions to one of individuals. ...
... post quem of Roman history.6 One of Mommsen’s own students, however, Elimar Klebs, would begin work on the prosopographical entries in Pauly-Wissowa’s Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, a project which would shift the field from an analysis of institutions to one of individuals. ...
The Roman State (cont.)
... • Nero, for example, had anyone he wanted out of his way simply killed, including his own mother. • Lacking an army, the Senate could not oppose Nero. • His legions finally revolted against him, and he committed suicide. ...
... • Nero, for example, had anyone he wanted out of his way simply killed, including his own mother. • Lacking an army, the Senate could not oppose Nero. • His legions finally revolted against him, and he committed suicide. ...
Ammianus, the Romans and Constantius II: Res Gestae XIV.6 and
... processions of both the unmilitary senators and the unmilitary emperor are set out in military terms. Those in charge of the senatorial households are likened to “skilled battle commanders” (XIV.6.17: proeliorum periti rectores) lining up first the catervas densas...et fortes, then the light-armed ...
... processions of both the unmilitary senators and the unmilitary emperor are set out in military terms. Those in charge of the senatorial households are likened to “skilled battle commanders” (XIV.6.17: proeliorum periti rectores) lining up first the catervas densas...et fortes, then the light-armed ...
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... grain supply to the capital. In fact, it is claimed that the first act of Severus, after he had had his predecessor Julianus murdered, was to take care of grain distribution. This is reported in Historia Augusta, which also reports that later, during the civil war against Pescennius Niger, Severus s ...
... grain supply to the capital. In fact, it is claimed that the first act of Severus, after he had had his predecessor Julianus murdered, was to take care of grain distribution. This is reported in Historia Augusta, which also reports that later, during the civil war against Pescennius Niger, Severus s ...
CHAPTER XI Reign of Claudius—Defeat of the Goths—Victories
... any private resentment till he had saved an empire whose impending ruin would, unless it was timely prevented, crush both the army and the people. AD 269: The Goths Invade the Empire The various nations of Germany and Sarmatia, who fought under the Gothic standard, had (AD 269) already collected an ...
... any private resentment till he had saved an empire whose impending ruin would, unless it was timely prevented, crush both the army and the people. AD 269: The Goths Invade the Empire The various nations of Germany and Sarmatia, who fought under the Gothic standard, had (AD 269) already collected an ...
the architectural patronage and political prowess of herod the great
... Further more, Vitruvius teaches that there is no particular hierarchy (figure 2). As previously mentioned, every principle needs the other in order to accelerate to its fullest potential. One can view it as a circle of life for ancient Roman architecture. One that allowed and required the equal nece ...
... Further more, Vitruvius teaches that there is no particular hierarchy (figure 2). As previously mentioned, every principle needs the other in order to accelerate to its fullest potential. One can view it as a circle of life for ancient Roman architecture. One that allowed and required the equal nece ...
The Lex Sempronia Agraria: A Soldier`s Stipendum
... has disintegrated into “patchy excerpta.”2 Livy, an important Roman historian who lived during the last days of the Republic and wrote in the reign of emperor Augustus, authored nine books, within his ab Urbe condita, chronicling the period from 145 BCE to 123 BCE. This encompasses the period immedi ...
... has disintegrated into “patchy excerpta.”2 Livy, an important Roman historian who lived during the last days of the Republic and wrote in the reign of emperor Augustus, authored nine books, within his ab Urbe condita, chronicling the period from 145 BCE to 123 BCE. This encompasses the period immedi ...
Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and
... But that is only part of the picture. For laughter, in its various guises, can be a weapon of the ruling power, as well as against it. And in this story the emperor himself was (as I have translated it) grinning, as he shook his own head while waving the ostrich’s at the frightened, bemused—or amuse ...
... But that is only part of the picture. For laughter, in its various guises, can be a weapon of the ruling power, as well as against it. And in this story the emperor himself was (as I have translated it) grinning, as he shook his own head while waving the ostrich’s at the frightened, bemused—or amuse ...
The Rmaniration of Hellenistlc Agora Forre in Southera Asia Minor
... Koine Greek became the international language and Greek religion and political institutions were adopted by many of the Local communities." To better understand this process of Hellenization and how it affected the communities of southern Asia Minor 1 will study Hellenistic 'civic-centres' in the ci ...
... Koine Greek became the international language and Greek religion and political institutions were adopted by many of the Local communities." To better understand this process of Hellenization and how it affected the communities of southern Asia Minor 1 will study Hellenistic 'civic-centres' in the ci ...
Mithradates: Scourge of Rome
... admired as a leader who resisted the West; many Kurds and Armenians, for example, consider him a national hero, another reason for him to be ignored by Turkey. Yet even there, historians are beginning to take an interest in the first ruler to unite and defend the diverse peoples of Anatolia against ...
... admired as a leader who resisted the West; many Kurds and Armenians, for example, consider him a national hero, another reason for him to be ignored by Turkey. Yet even there, historians are beginning to take an interest in the first ruler to unite and defend the diverse peoples of Anatolia against ...
Johnston`s The Private Life of the Romans
... upon the points of contact between the ancient and the modern world. The teacher of the classics has come to realize that the obligations of the present to the past are not to be so clearly presented and so vividly appreciated in connection with the formal study of art and literature as in the inves ...
... upon the points of contact between the ancient and the modern world. The teacher of the classics has come to realize that the obligations of the present to the past are not to be so clearly presented and so vividly appreciated in connection with the formal study of art and literature as in the inves ...
ROMAN CONQUEST OF SPAIN: THE ECONOMIC MOTIVE
... traveling on a ship to Tarshish, which is generally agreed to be the same as Tartessus. During Solomon's reign, c. 973-933, ships arrived from Tarshish with cargoes of "gold and silver, ivory, apes and peacocks."12 Although each of these examples attests to a rich kingdom, supposedly in the southern ...
... traveling on a ship to Tarshish, which is generally agreed to be the same as Tartessus. During Solomon's reign, c. 973-933, ships arrived from Tarshish with cargoes of "gold and silver, ivory, apes and peacocks."12 Although each of these examples attests to a rich kingdom, supposedly in the southern ...
The Walls of the Romans: Boundaries and Limits in the Republic
... fifth century BCE Rome. What Livy and Cicero are describing, when they talk about their understanding of “ancient” traditions, is necessarily what the later Roman Republicans believed to be part of the mos maiorum. All aspects of the mos maiorum are necessarily from the later Roman perspectives beca ...
... fifth century BCE Rome. What Livy and Cicero are describing, when they talk about their understanding of “ancient” traditions, is necessarily what the later Roman Republicans believed to be part of the mos maiorum. All aspects of the mos maiorum are necessarily from the later Roman perspectives beca ...
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.""