Spartacus Mythistoricus: Winning Spartacus into the
... psychological factors, by the accidents of interest and attention. Moment by moment the whole fabric of events dissolves in ruins and melts into the past; and all that survives of the thing done passes into the custody of a shifting, capricious, imperfect, human memory. Nor is the mutilated fragment ...
... psychological factors, by the accidents of interest and attention. Moment by moment the whole fabric of events dissolves in ruins and melts into the past; and all that survives of the thing done passes into the custody of a shifting, capricious, imperfect, human memory. Nor is the mutilated fragment ...
The Portrayal and Role of Anger in the Res Gestae of Ammianus
... Roman Empire from Gaul to Germania, to Illyricum, Spain, Africa, Thrace, Syria and Italy. There are even major books that cover the wars in Persia that occupied so much of the Eastern emperors’ reigns. The period is contained in the extant volumes of Ammianus’ works, from Books 14-31, but my thesis ...
... Roman Empire from Gaul to Germania, to Illyricum, Spain, Africa, Thrace, Syria and Italy. There are even major books that cover the wars in Persia that occupied so much of the Eastern emperors’ reigns. The period is contained in the extant volumes of Ammianus’ works, from Books 14-31, but my thesis ...
a report for an internship carried out at the rwanda
... away from a siege to a council; and the same page places us in the middle of a campaign against the barbarians, and in the depths of the Monophysite controversy. In Gibbon it is not always easy to bear in mind the exact dates but the course of events is ever clear and distinct; like a skilful genera ...
... away from a siege to a council; and the same page places us in the middle of a campaign against the barbarians, and in the depths of the Monophysite controversy. In Gibbon it is not always easy to bear in mind the exact dates but the course of events is ever clear and distinct; like a skilful genera ...
HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
... anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand." We feel that the unity and harmony of narrative, which shall comprehend this period of social disorganization, must be ascribed entirely to the skill and luminous disposition of the historian. It is in this sublime Gothic architectu ...
... anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand." We feel that the unity and harmony of narrative, which shall comprehend this period of social disorganization, must be ascribed entirely to the skill and luminous disposition of the historian. It is in this sublime Gothic architectu ...
History Of The Decli.. - The Conscious Living Foundation
... council; and the same page places us in the middle of a campaign against the barbarians, and in the depths of the Monophysite controversy. In Gibbon it is not always easy to bear in mind the exact dates but the course of events is ever clear and distinct; like a skilful general, though his troops ad ...
... council; and the same page places us in the middle of a campaign against the barbarians, and in the depths of the Monophysite controversy. In Gibbon it is not always easy to bear in mind the exact dates but the course of events is ever clear and distinct; like a skilful general, though his troops ad ...
PDF hosted at the Radboud Repository of the Radboud University
... The mad monarchs of Roman history, with all their peculiarities and the countless anecdotes that surround their lives, form a fascinating topic of research. This book focuses on one of those ‘insane despots’. The emperor Commodus was the first purple-born Roman emperor, and according to our literary ...
... The mad monarchs of Roman history, with all their peculiarities and the countless anecdotes that surround their lives, form a fascinating topic of research. This book focuses on one of those ‘insane despots’. The emperor Commodus was the first purple-born Roman emperor, and according to our literary ...
hannibal`s night time antics: livy`s use of `the night` in the third
... subtleties of Hannibal’s complex characterisation to a greater extent. Second, night itself is a complicated topos that Livy exploits in various ways. Despite the complexities, re-examining Hannibal by taking night as a setting into account reveals a new dimension to his characterisation, whilst sim ...
... subtleties of Hannibal’s complex characterisation to a greater extent. Second, night itself is a complicated topos that Livy exploits in various ways. Despite the complexities, re-examining Hannibal by taking night as a setting into account reveals a new dimension to his characterisation, whilst sim ...
i Caligula Unmasked
... he could be caring and sympathetic to other people; both Dio and the Fasti Ostienses relate the event.30 Furthermore, in AD 39 Caligula appointed officials to various provinces, such as Galba and Petronius, who were capable of doing their tasks well, proof that he could make important decisions if t ...
... he could be caring and sympathetic to other people; both Dio and the Fasti Ostienses relate the event.30 Furthermore, in AD 39 Caligula appointed officials to various provinces, such as Galba and Petronius, who were capable of doing their tasks well, proof that he could make important decisions if t ...
ROMANS ON PARADE: REPRESENTATIONS OF ROMANNESS IN
... Indeed, at least by the time of the middle-to-late Republic, the triumph was much more important as a social and political spectacle than as a sacred ritual. In fact, the triumph was the social and political spectacle of the Republic, and every Roman with any political ambition at all wanted to play ...
... Indeed, at least by the time of the middle-to-late Republic, the triumph was much more important as a social and political spectacle than as a sacred ritual. In fact, the triumph was the social and political spectacle of the Republic, and every Roman with any political ambition at all wanted to play ...
Theoderic, the Goths, and the Restoration of the Roman
... serious price for the western Empire, laying the seeds for the barbarian kingdoms that would soon supplant it in the West. In 428/9, no longer checked by the Visigoths, the Hasding Vandals and the remnants of the Alans crossed the Straits of Gibraltar into North Africa, seizing Carthage by 439. From ...
... serious price for the western Empire, laying the seeds for the barbarian kingdoms that would soon supplant it in the West. In 428/9, no longer checked by the Visigoths, the Hasding Vandals and the remnants of the Alans crossed the Straits of Gibraltar into North Africa, seizing Carthage by 439. From ...
Making Space for Bicultural Identity
... the grueling rhetorical training that made him a grandmaster of Attic speech. But Herodes had also—quite atypically—received some of his education in Rome. He had ...
... the grueling rhetorical training that made him a grandmaster of Attic speech. But Herodes had also—quite atypically—received some of his education in Rome. He had ...
Power and Status in the Roman Empire, AD 193-284
... My friends and in-laws are to be thanked for their encouragements and expressing interest in my work. I wish to thank my parents and my sister for their unconditional support and love. The final words of thanks are reserved for Folkert, who is probably the only physicist who is an expert on both par ...
... My friends and in-laws are to be thanked for their encouragements and expressing interest in my work. I wish to thank my parents and my sister for their unconditional support and love. The final words of thanks are reserved for Folkert, who is probably the only physicist who is an expert on both par ...
Power and Status in the Roman Empire, ad 193–284
... My friends and in-laws are to be thanked for their encouragements and expressing interest in my work. I wish to thank my parents and my sister for their unconditional support and love. The final words of thanks are reserved for Folkert, who is probably the only physicist who is an expert on both par ...
... My friends and in-laws are to be thanked for their encouragements and expressing interest in my work. I wish to thank my parents and my sister for their unconditional support and love. The final words of thanks are reserved for Folkert, who is probably the only physicist who is an expert on both par ...
74938 - Radboud Repository
... accession of Diocletian in 284 marks the end. As said, the year 193 inaugurated a period in which many problems challenged imperial power. These internal and external difficulties had started to manifest themselves during the reign of Marcus Aurelius, but from 193 problems accumulated and increasin ...
... accession of Diocletian in 284 marks the end. As said, the year 193 inaugurated a period in which many problems challenged imperial power. These internal and external difficulties had started to manifest themselves during the reign of Marcus Aurelius, but from 193 problems accumulated and increasin ...
- The University of Liverpool Repository
... subjugated through war by the Spartans, and though Roman vernae were born into slavery, their ancestors had at one time been enslaved.2 To Roman jurists, the definitive explanation for the existence of slavery as a universally accepted practice in contrast with ‘natural law,’ was that it stemmed fro ...
... subjugated through war by the Spartans, and though Roman vernae were born into slavery, their ancestors had at one time been enslaved.2 To Roman jurists, the definitive explanation for the existence of slavery as a universally accepted practice in contrast with ‘natural law,’ was that it stemmed fro ...
a worthy warrior queen - Georgetown University
... Zenobia appears to have spoken the Egyptian language well and famously claimed direct descent from Cleopatra. In Arabic literature, the historian Al-Tabari, who lived four centuries later, maintains that Zenobia took over her father’s tribe upon his death and led them on their nomadic wanderings bet ...
... Zenobia appears to have spoken the Egyptian language well and famously claimed direct descent from Cleopatra. In Arabic literature, the historian Al-Tabari, who lived four centuries later, maintains that Zenobia took over her father’s tribe upon his death and led them on their nomadic wanderings bet ...
The Project Gutenberg eBook of The History of Rome
... Romans, the consuls being Titus Veturius Calvinus and Spurius Postumius. The Samnites had as their commander that year Caius Ponius, son to Herennius, born of a father most highly renowned for wisdom, and himself a consummate warrior and commander. When the ambassadors, who had been sent to make res ...
... Romans, the consuls being Titus Veturius Calvinus and Spurius Postumius. The Samnites had as their commander that year Caius Ponius, son to Herennius, born of a father most highly renowned for wisdom, and himself a consummate warrior and commander. When the ambassadors, who had been sent to make res ...
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 ...
Volume Two - McMaster University, Canada
... contained in the three volumes already before the public, so that the present lectures will form a sort of continuation to Niebuhr's great work. But in determining upon this plan I have added two things, which a t first sight may seem to be out of place and inconsistent with my plan,-viz. thc twelve ...
... contained in the three volumes already before the public, so that the present lectures will form a sort of continuation to Niebuhr's great work. But in determining upon this plan I have added two things, which a t first sight may seem to be out of place and inconsistent with my plan,-viz. thc twelve ...
Augustus - Hirhome.com
... The fundamental question was the nature of the regime that should now rule Rome. Two possibilities were surely to be avoided. The first was Caesar’s style of autocracy; with its contempt for traditional forms of government, and its leanings towards dynasty and divinity, it had only led to his assass ...
... The fundamental question was the nature of the regime that should now rule Rome. Two possibilities were surely to be avoided. The first was Caesar’s style of autocracy; with its contempt for traditional forms of government, and its leanings towards dynasty and divinity, it had only led to his assass ...
Metellus and the Head ofSertorius
... Lepidani was formally revoked in 70 (?) by the lex Plotia de reditu Lepidanorum 8, No proscriptus is known ever to have received a pardon. The Sullan proscriptions lost their legal force only in 49, with Caesar’s restoration of the sons of the proscribed to their property and civic rights ‘~. If Met ...
... Lepidani was formally revoked in 70 (?) by the lex Plotia de reditu Lepidanorum 8, No proscriptus is known ever to have received a pardon. The Sullan proscriptions lost their legal force only in 49, with Caesar’s restoration of the sons of the proscribed to their property and civic rights ‘~. If Met ...
THE EMPIRE`S MUSE: ROMAN INTERPRETATIONS OF THE
... Amazon was a popular character in the Imperial age of Rome and was used to discuss the creation of identity for the Roman people, though that identity changed over time. The extant sources discussing Amazon imagery survive mostly in two types. The documents are comprised of the literature of Virgil, ...
... Amazon was a popular character in the Imperial age of Rome and was used to discuss the creation of identity for the Roman people, though that identity changed over time. The extant sources discussing Amazon imagery survive mostly in two types. The documents are comprised of the literature of Virgil, ...
- San Diego State University
... (sixth century CE). From the very naming convention of these epochs it is clear that the system of governance changed dramatically. In the Republican Era (509 to 30 BCE) the aristocratically democratic consular system was in practice, in which the Roman Senate elected the leaders who governed with t ...
... (sixth century CE). From the very naming convention of these epochs it is clear that the system of governance changed dramatically. In the Republican Era (509 to 30 BCE) the aristocratically democratic consular system was in practice, in which the Roman Senate elected the leaders who governed with t ...
Engineering Power: The Roman Triumph as Material Expression of
... Martius for his triumphal procession. Scattered along a triumphal route that stretched from the Campus Martius to the precinct of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitoline Hill, spectators witnessed the exhibition of the myriad sculptures, paintings, gold and silver vessels, and other luxury goods t ...
... Martius for his triumphal procession. Scattered along a triumphal route that stretched from the Campus Martius to the precinct of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitoline Hill, spectators witnessed the exhibition of the myriad sculptures, paintings, gold and silver vessels, and other luxury goods t ...
Online Library of Liberty
... Moguls, were erected by their founders on the basis of popular superstition. The miraculous conception, which fraud and credulity ascribed to the virgin-mother of Zingis, raised him above the level of human nature; and the naked prophet, who, in the name of the Deity, invested him with the empire of ...
... Moguls, were erected by their founders on the basis of popular superstition. The miraculous conception, which fraud and credulity ascribed to the virgin-mother of Zingis, raised him above the level of human nature; and the naked prophet, who, in the name of the Deity, invested him with the empire of ...