The Propaganda of Vespasian
... Senatorial building, promoted his humble origins as the son of a tax collector, moved out of the
Arentia (the imperial palace) to a small villa outside Rome, had his villa open to any senators
who wanted to visit him, and did not have these visitors searched. When Vespasian's villa was
still under c ...
i Caligula Unmasked
... as having a “Schizoid Personality Disorder”, and Caligula, according to the literary
accounts, does not seem to fall under this category well either.16 As for psychopathy, or
antisocial personality disorder, it is possible that Caligula suffered to some extent from
the symptoms associated with it; h ...
ROMANS ON PARADE: REPRESENTATIONS OF ROMANNESS IN
... in a new way: both, although through very different methods, take a view of the triumph
with the idea of surveying it in a more general and holistic way. In 1970, H.S. Versnel
published Triumphus: An Inquiry into the Origin, Development, and Meaning of the
Roman Triumph.10 For the first time, someon ...
Vestal Virgins of Rome: Images Of Power
... humble beginnings, the Vestals were able to create a foothold in political life through the
turbulence of the transition from Republic to Principate. In part due to the violent and perilous
transition, the Vestal Virgins of Rome began to represent a sense of what it meant to be Roman.
The manifestat ...
the roman sun: symbolic variation in ancient solar - UvA-DARE
... necessary to first review the major work already done on the subject. The history of scholarship
surrounding Sol is as complicated as his own story, for we find that its focus and conclusions are
subject to contemporary political opinion as well as at times based on questionable sources.
However, my ...
Introduction
... calms the storm himself. Aeneas collects seven ships and reaches a sheltered cove on the coast of North
Africa. While looking out for the missing ships, he sights a herd of deer, kills seven and distributes them to his
comrades together with wine. He makes a speech of encouragement to his men who, ...
Introduction
... Crassus' in 53 BC, already strained relations between the two remaining triumvirs reached breaking point. In
49 BC, Caesar declared war on Pompey and the Roman senate, crossed the Rubicon and marched on Rome
with his forces.
The defeat of Pompey established Caesar as the sole ruler of the entire Rom ...
Theoderic, the Goths, and the Restoration of the Roman
... The end of Roman rule in the West was a complicated process that lasted the
better part of a century. Ironically, it began in the East in 376 when a population of
Goths, later known as Visigoths, appealed to the eastern emperor Valens for admission
and settlement within the Roman Empire. Valens, see ...
PDF - La Trobe University
... winning combination allowed him to craft a position for himself that changed his world and
the world around him, and established an enduring legacy which lasted for millennia.
In the years after his death, Caesar’s great-nephew (and later adopted son) Octavian
ensured that his uncle’s name would liv ...
View - OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
... Aeneas. Her story allows Romans to form an emotional bond with the
Thessalians, although it maintains their essential alterity.
The Galatian campaign of Manlius Vulso shows the dangers of Rome’s
encounter with Hellenism. The Galatians are presented as Gallic-Greek hybrids
who are no longer the great ...
Tracing the Antinous Cult - UvA-DARE
... structured manner as possible. An overview of all the objects and sites that could have had a
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 secon ...
Switzerland in the Roman era
The territory of modern Switzerland was a part of the Roman Republic and Empire for a period of about six centuries, beginning with the step-by-step conquest of the area by Roman armies from the 2nd century BC and ending with the decline of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.The mostly Celtic tribes of the area were subjugated by successive Roman campaigns aimed at control of the strategic routes from Italy across the Alps to the Rhine and into Gaul, most importantly by Julius Caesar's defeat of the largest tribal group, the Helvetii, in 58 BC. Under the Pax Romana, the area was smoothly integrated into the prospering Empire, and its population assimilated into the wider Gallo-Roman culture by the 2nd century AD, as the Romans enlisted the native aristocracy to engage in local government, built a network of roads connecting their newly established colonial cities and divided up the area among the Roman provinces.Roman civilization began to retreat from Swiss territory when it became a border region again after the Crisis of the Third Century. Roman control of most of Switzerland ceased in 401 AD, after which the area began to be occupied by Germanic peoples.