Antoninus
... grandfather took charge of him. Inheriting the walth of both his grandfathers made Antoninus one of the richest men in Rome. He embarked on the traditional career for a senator, climbing the ladder of various offices, achieving the post of quaestor, then praetor and, alas, in AD 120 becoming consul ...
... grandfather took charge of him. Inheriting the walth of both his grandfathers made Antoninus one of the richest men in Rome. He embarked on the traditional career for a senator, climbing the ladder of various offices, achieving the post of quaestor, then praetor and, alas, in AD 120 becoming consul ...
Marcus Aurelius
... Syria, it was emperor Verus who left for the east in order to lead the campaign. And yet, as Verus spent most of his time pursuing his pleasures at Antioch, leadership of the campaign was left in the hands of the Roman generals, and - to some degree - even in the hands of Marcus Aurelius back in Rom ...
... Syria, it was emperor Verus who left for the east in order to lead the campaign. And yet, as Verus spent most of his time pursuing his pleasures at Antioch, leadership of the campaign was left in the hands of the Roman generals, and - to some degree - even in the hands of Marcus Aurelius back in Rom ...
Roman Spain
... colonial forum. Next to this forum there was the basilica and there is still some evidence of it in Tarragona today. There you can see the sewers2. Statues from the same period have been found, some of them are related to the imperial worshipping. The forum was destroyed by a fire in 360 AD, probabl ...
... colonial forum. Next to this forum there was the basilica and there is still some evidence of it in Tarragona today. There you can see the sewers2. Statues from the same period have been found, some of them are related to the imperial worshipping. The forum was destroyed by a fire in 360 AD, probabl ...
Surveying Roman Aqueducts
... Used flat it had the properties of a plan table. It may well be that a chief surveyor for a legion could have retained and understood such an instrument. Even woodworking tools were passed from artisan to artisan from generation to generation. A dioptra is likely to have been a high status possessio ...
... Used flat it had the properties of a plan table. It may well be that a chief surveyor for a legion could have retained and understood such an instrument. Even woodworking tools were passed from artisan to artisan from generation to generation. A dioptra is likely to have been a high status possessio ...
A tale of two periods
... own problems. We will start with the literary sources, for while it is undoubtedly true that they only represent a very limited viewpoint and that their narratives are subject to distortion in a way that the other categories usually are not, they also provide the kind of details that are rarely foun ...
... own problems. We will start with the literary sources, for while it is undoubtedly true that they only represent a very limited viewpoint and that their narratives are subject to distortion in a way that the other categories usually are not, they also provide the kind of details that are rarely foun ...
The Refined Roman Society: Analysis of Roman Lamps and a
... and especially in the Levant, “lamps in the Roman style…seem to have been manufactured at some east-Mediterranean city such as Alexandria in Egypt or Antioch in Syria” since “there were no large factories in ancient Palestine” (Smith, 1966, p. 19). If such artifacts were truly spread over the massiv ...
... and especially in the Levant, “lamps in the Roman style…seem to have been manufactured at some east-Mediterranean city such as Alexandria in Egypt or Antioch in Syria” since “there were no large factories in ancient Palestine” (Smith, 1966, p. 19). If such artifacts were truly spread over the massiv ...
A Tale of Two States
... sources and representation of power. By examining these aspects I will be able to draw and infer further meaning and ideas of what the state was like at other levels. These will then feed into my examination of whether or not these states were actually Roman. This may seem like a fairly straightforw ...
... sources and representation of power. By examining these aspects I will be able to draw and infer further meaning and ideas of what the state was like at other levels. These will then feed into my examination of whether or not these states were actually Roman. This may seem like a fairly straightforw ...
Chapter Nine: Publicans and Patriarchs: The Rise of Roman Family
... operations were financed from Carthage. The cost of insuring Mediterranean cargoes alone amounted to a full third of their value but piracy and war raised the costs to two thirds or even the full price. Only the crown and the large estates and temples could cover such potential losses. Oncethe Punic ...
... operations were financed from Carthage. The cost of insuring Mediterranean cargoes alone amounted to a full third of their value but piracy and war raised the costs to two thirds or even the full price. Only the crown and the large estates and temples could cover such potential losses. Oncethe Punic ...
A Roman in Name Only: An Onomastic Study of Cultural
... Abstract: This paper studies the evolution of naming practices in Roman Spain as way to measure the limits of Romanization and determine the persistence of the indigenous culture. Onomastic evidence suggests that the indigenous population actively integrated itself into the Roman culture on its own ...
... Abstract: This paper studies the evolution of naming practices in Roman Spain as way to measure the limits of Romanization and determine the persistence of the indigenous culture. Onomastic evidence suggests that the indigenous population actively integrated itself into the Roman culture on its own ...
Was Ancient Rome a Dead Wives Society?
... into the ranks of Roman social historians. William Harris in his 1986 article also acknowledged the distortion resulting from reading legal statements as if they described everyday life reality. His stated aim was “not a re-statement of the classical law on the subject, but a contribution to the his ...
... into the ranks of Roman social historians. William Harris in his 1986 article also acknowledged the distortion resulting from reading legal statements as if they described everyday life reality. His stated aim was “not a re-statement of the classical law on the subject, but a contribution to the his ...
- WRAP: Warwick Research Archive Portal
... unnoticed and normative but nonetheless generating social constructions.3 These functions were also present in the Roman world. Howgego has recently demonstrated the connection between coinage and Roman expansion, and the detailed study of the site of Lattara in Gaul has revealed how Roman conquest ...
... unnoticed and normative but nonetheless generating social constructions.3 These functions were also present in the Roman world. Howgego has recently demonstrated the connection between coinage and Roman expansion, and the detailed study of the site of Lattara in Gaul has revealed how Roman conquest ...
Tekmeria - Journal
... sources concerning the ®ction-like life of Eurycles and his descendants. Eurycles sided with Octavian even before the battle at Actium, since his father, Lachares, probably a partisan of Caesar, was executed by M. Antonius on the pretext that he had supported piracy.13 As emperor, Augustus rewarded ...
... sources concerning the ®ction-like life of Eurycles and his descendants. Eurycles sided with Octavian even before the battle at Actium, since his father, Lachares, probably a partisan of Caesar, was executed by M. Antonius on the pretext that he had supported piracy.13 As emperor, Augustus rewarded ...
How to Collect Ancient Roman Coins
... FOLLIS “Nummus”: Emperor Diocletian first minted the follis, a bronze coin with a minute amount of silver (usually a wash), around A.D. 294. Because of the chaotic state of the empire, it rapidly underwent changes, decreasing in size and weight. REDUCED FOLLIS: Through time, economic changes forced ...
... FOLLIS “Nummus”: Emperor Diocletian first minted the follis, a bronze coin with a minute amount of silver (usually a wash), around A.D. 294. Because of the chaotic state of the empire, it rapidly underwent changes, decreasing in size and weight. REDUCED FOLLIS: Through time, economic changes forced ...
How to Collect Ancient Roman Coins
... FOLLIS “Nummus”: Emperor Diocletian first minted the follis, a bronze coin with a minute amount of silver (usually a wash), around A.D. 294. Because of the chaotic state of the empire, it rapidly underwent changes, decreasing in size and weight. REDUCED FOLLIS: Through time, economic changes forced ...
... FOLLIS “Nummus”: Emperor Diocletian first minted the follis, a bronze coin with a minute amount of silver (usually a wash), around A.D. 294. Because of the chaotic state of the empire, it rapidly underwent changes, decreasing in size and weight. REDUCED FOLLIS: Through time, economic changes forced ...
Septimius Severus (193–211 AD): Founder of the Severan Dynasty
... valuable metals like bronze or copper. This meant that he could mint more coins with the same amount of silver, but each of those coins quickly became less valuable, causing inflation. No Roman emperor since Nero had so debased the currency, and this would eventually have serious repercussions, espe ...
... valuable metals like bronze or copper. This meant that he could mint more coins with the same amount of silver, but each of those coins quickly became less valuable, causing inflation. No Roman emperor since Nero had so debased the currency, and this would eventually have serious repercussions, espe ...
Kings beyond the claustra. Nero`s Nubian Nile, India
... (therapeia and time) to the Roman. The historicity of the moment need not detain us: the bluntness ascribed to the Roman has its own history in Greek and Roman culture and the historiography of ancient diplomacy, traceable at least as far back as the response of Herodotus’ Scythian King Idanthyrsus ...
... (therapeia and time) to the Roman. The historicity of the moment need not detain us: the bluntness ascribed to the Roman has its own history in Greek and Roman culture and the historiography of ancient diplomacy, traceable at least as far back as the response of Herodotus’ Scythian King Idanthyrsus ...
CLAS 207/307 Roman Social History TRIMESTER 1 2011
... A basic knowledge of the outline of Roman History is expected of incoming students — those who have not completed CLAS 105 previously should familiarise themselves with Roman history (e.g. K. Christ, The Romans; C. Wells, The Roman Empire). In CLAS 307, reading supplementary to that for CLAS 207 wil ...
... A basic knowledge of the outline of Roman History is expected of incoming students — those who have not completed CLAS 105 previously should familiarise themselves with Roman history (e.g. K. Christ, The Romans; C. Wells, The Roman Empire). In CLAS 307, reading supplementary to that for CLAS 207 wil ...
The Composition of the Peloponnesian Elites in the
... Eurycles was brought about by his arrogance or by his support to Tiberius. Internal con¯icts and struggle of local elite of Sparta for appropriating the power, especially in the changeable ®rst phase of the Principate, became sharper on this occasion. There was a dispute between the parvenu Eurycles ...
... Eurycles was brought about by his arrogance or by his support to Tiberius. Internal con¯icts and struggle of local elite of Sparta for appropriating the power, especially in the changeable ®rst phase of the Principate, became sharper on this occasion. There was a dispute between the parvenu Eurycles ...
Kingdom of Osroene
... Osroene, also spelled Osrohene and Osrhoene (Ancient Greek: Ὀσροηνή; Classical Syriac: ܡܠܟܘܬܐ ܕܒܝܬ ܐܘܪܗܝMalkūṯā d-Bayt ʿŌrhai) and sometimes known by the name of its capital city, Edessa (modern Şanlıurfa, Turkey), was a historical kingdom located in upper Mesopotamia, [1] which enjoyed semi-auto ...
... Osroene, also spelled Osrohene and Osrhoene (Ancient Greek: Ὀσροηνή; Classical Syriac: ܡܠܟܘܬܐ ܕܒܝܬ ܐܘܪܗܝMalkūṯā d-Bayt ʿŌrhai) and sometimes known by the name of its capital city, Edessa (modern Şanlıurfa, Turkey), was a historical kingdom located in upper Mesopotamia, [1] which enjoyed semi-auto ...
The settling factors of Roman villas in southern Lusitania
... rarely. The rooms of porticus villas or villas with central corridors were organized in linear order, and they had usually smaller areas. The villas with peristylium or with central patio had bigger areas (B. Thomas 1961, Mócsy and Fitz 1990, Reutti 1994, Bechert 2005): in the following examined vi ...
... rarely. The rooms of porticus villas or villas with central corridors were organized in linear order, and they had usually smaller areas. The villas with peristylium or with central patio had bigger areas (B. Thomas 1961, Mócsy and Fitz 1990, Reutti 1994, Bechert 2005): in the following examined vi ...
Mos, maiores, and historical exempla in Roman culture - Beck-Shop
... the knowledge and identity of a group of people which regards itself as a unity. It is constantly renewed in view of the present, and it is characterized by both a formative, or didactic, element and a normative element. It works in two modes: a mode of potentiality as an archive of texts, images, a ...
... the knowledge and identity of a group of people which regards itself as a unity. It is constantly renewed in view of the present, and it is characterized by both a formative, or didactic, element and a normative element. It works in two modes: a mode of potentiality as an archive of texts, images, a ...
Ancient_Rome_Study_guide_1
... 37. The father of a family, who had complete control over his wife and children, was called the _______________. 38. Followers of Jesus were convinced he was the Messiah by their belief in his _________________. 39. Starting with Octavian, Roman emperors took the title ________. Short Answer 40. Wha ...
... 37. The father of a family, who had complete control over his wife and children, was called the _______________. 38. Followers of Jesus were convinced he was the Messiah by their belief in his _________________. 39. Starting with Octavian, Roman emperors took the title ________. Short Answer 40. Wha ...
Slayt 1
... Hierapolis (the holy city) founded by Eumenus II King of Pergamum in the II century BC, under the Roman domination 129 BC and grow up during the 2nd and 3rd century AD. Christianism came with the Apostle Philip who had been crucified here in the year 87 AD. The site called Martyrium of Saint Philip ...
... Hierapolis (the holy city) founded by Eumenus II King of Pergamum in the II century BC, under the Roman domination 129 BC and grow up during the 2nd and 3rd century AD. Christianism came with the Apostle Philip who had been crucified here in the year 87 AD. The site called Martyrium of Saint Philip ...
The Novus Homo and Virtus: Oratory, Masculinity, and the
... central virtue of virtus changed as Roman society became more sophisticated, yet there are still elements which connect the classical meaning of virtus to its older definitions of “manliness.” Virtus as a central Roman virtue, slowly changed in meaning in the time between its first appearance in the ...
... central virtue of virtus changed as Roman society became more sophisticated, yet there are still elements which connect the classical meaning of virtus to its older definitions of “manliness.” Virtus as a central Roman virtue, slowly changed in meaning in the time between its first appearance in the ...
Sino-Roman relations
Sino-Roman relations were essentially indirect throughout the existence of both empires. The Roman Empire and the ancient Han dynasty progressively inched closer in the course of the Roman expansion into the Ancient Near East and simultaneous Chinese military incursions into Central Asia. However, powerful intermediate empires such as the Parthians and Kushans kept the two Eurasian flanking powers permanently apart and mutual awareness remained low and knowledge fuzzy.Only a few attempts at direct contact are known from records: In 97 BCE, the Chinese general Ban Chao unsuccessfully tried to send an envoy to Rome. Several alleged Roman emissaries to China were recorded by ancient Chinese historians. The first one on record, supposedly from either the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius or the later emperor Marcus Aurelius, arrived in 166 CE.The indirect exchange of goods on the land (the so-called silk road) and sea routes included Chinese silk and Roman glassware and high-quality cloth.In classical sources, the problem of identifying references to ancient China is exacerbated by the interpretation of the Latin term ""Seres,"" whose meaning fluctuated and could refer to a number of Asian people in a wide arc from India over Central Asia to China. In Chinese records, the Roman Empire came to be known as ""Da Qin"", Great Qin, apparently thought to be a sort of counter-China at the other end of the world. According to Edwin G. Pulleyblank, the ""point that needs to be stressed is that the Chinese conception of Da Qin was confused from the outset with ancient mythological notions about the far west"".