- University of Glasgow
... the pontifex maximus. Despite the burgeoning interest in the interplay between religion and politics during the final phase of the Republic1 and increased scholarship on the legal activity of the pontifical college as a whole, comparatively little attention has been focused on this individual office ...
... the pontifex maximus. Despite the burgeoning interest in the interplay between religion and politics during the final phase of the Republic1 and increased scholarship on the legal activity of the pontifical college as a whole, comparatively little attention has been focused on this individual office ...
Tom Cox - Gorffennol
... Born in 59BC, in the northern Italian city of Patavium in Cisalpine Gaul,1 the historian Livy differed from his predecessors in more than just his representation of Roman history. Having only been incorporated into Italy in 49BC, thus gaining Roman citizenship, the local elite of the area – of which ...
... Born in 59BC, in the northern Italian city of Patavium in Cisalpine Gaul,1 the historian Livy differed from his predecessors in more than just his representation of Roman history. Having only been incorporated into Italy in 49BC, thus gaining Roman citizenship, the local elite of the area – of which ...
Abstract
... piece). The one-sided nature of the ‘debate’ is not immediately clear, for Cicero usually agrees with Polybius, and his disagreements with Polybius are carried out either in an off-hand manner, or simply by not mentioning the point of view Polybius would have had. In this way, Cicero cleverly avoids ...
... piece). The one-sided nature of the ‘debate’ is not immediately clear, for Cicero usually agrees with Polybius, and his disagreements with Polybius are carried out either in an off-hand manner, or simply by not mentioning the point of view Polybius would have had. In this way, Cicero cleverly avoids ...
Pro Roscio Amerino INTRODUCTION
... support, Cicero refers frequently to the civil war, yet finishes by blaming abuse of Sulla's victory by people such as the T. Roscii and Sulla, not the victory itself. The Court The Roman term for criminal court was quaestio: inquiry. The first standing court at Rome was established in 149 BCE to he ...
... support, Cicero refers frequently to the civil war, yet finishes by blaming abuse of Sulla's victory by people such as the T. Roscii and Sulla, not the victory itself. The Court The Roman term for criminal court was quaestio: inquiry. The first standing court at Rome was established in 149 BCE to he ...
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 ...
Marcus Tullius Cicero
... political position in the region. While both followed the footsteps of Marius to become novus homo (new men) in the Roman Senate, they did so in completely different fashions. Pompey, of course, chose the military route, paying little regard to the traditional steps of the political ladder (cursus h ...
... political position in the region. While both followed the footsteps of Marius to become novus homo (new men) in the Roman Senate, they did so in completely different fashions. Pompey, of course, chose the military route, paying little regard to the traditional steps of the political ladder (cursus h ...
PDF-1 - RUcore
... domesticity that the Augustan Principate envisioned. The sentiment and nostalgia on which this moral movement thrived were calculated to achieve a new order of the ages, however, their renewed prominence under Augustus stemmed from what had long been one of the foremost Roman cultural institutions. ...
... domesticity that the Augustan Principate envisioned. The sentiment and nostalgia on which this moral movement thrived were calculated to achieve a new order of the ages, however, their renewed prominence under Augustus stemmed from what had long been one of the foremost Roman cultural institutions. ...
Pfingsten-11
... In this respect, Cicero's main contribution was not any great philosophical innovation. Instead, Cicero's role in the history of philosophy was in transmitting the philosophical tradition of Greece to Rome. To express Greek philosophy in the largely utilitarian language of Latin, Cicero needed to in ...
... In this respect, Cicero's main contribution was not any great philosophical innovation. Instead, Cicero's role in the history of philosophy was in transmitting the philosophical tradition of Greece to Rome. To express Greek philosophy in the largely utilitarian language of Latin, Cicero needed to in ...
umi-ku-2467_1 - KU ScholarWorks
... civilizations: since the two cultures had developed in such close proximity there were bound to be similarities. These similarities in culture would have faded into the background with time, forcing some Etruscan rituals into the category of “other” and the rest into the category of “archaic.” By th ...
... civilizations: since the two cultures had developed in such close proximity there were bound to be similarities. These similarities in culture would have faded into the background with time, forcing some Etruscan rituals into the category of “other” and the rest into the category of “archaic.” By th ...
Tilburg University The jurisdiction of the pontiff in the Roman
... development of Roman law and it is clear that the supervising official would have contributed considerably to this development. Since the 20th century, ...
... development of Roman law and it is clear that the supervising official would have contributed considerably to this development. Since the 20th century, ...
ABSTRACT A Healing God Comes to Rome: Aesculapius and the
... mortal beings and instead cause immense collateral damage without a concern for those whom they deem inferior.14 Asklepius did not act thus – for the most part, the healing god was good and moral.15 He “was different from other gods in the Greek pantheon… [and] unlike his father, Apollo, his nature ...
... mortal beings and instead cause immense collateral damage without a concern for those whom they deem inferior.14 Asklepius did not act thus – for the most part, the healing god was good and moral.15 He “was different from other gods in the Greek pantheon… [and] unlike his father, Apollo, his nature ...
Roman Principate - Seshat: Global History Databank
... "The procuratorships of provinces were posts of high trust and importance, and Augustus must have seen that they could not well be entrusted to freedmen. He therefore limited the latter to the subordinate positions, and entrusted the head posts to men of equestrian rank, whose superior position was ...
... "The procuratorships of provinces were posts of high trust and importance, and Augustus must have seen that they could not well be entrusted to freedmen. He therefore limited the latter to the subordinate positions, and entrusted the head posts to men of equestrian rank, whose superior position was ...
18berry
... violence, extortion and treason were the main ones); conviction would entail exile and hence political extinction. It was traditional at Rome for a defendant in a trial to seek out an advocate (patronus) to speak on his behalf (Roman practice differed from Greek in this respect: in Greece speakers h ...
... violence, extortion and treason were the main ones); conviction would entail exile and hence political extinction. It was traditional at Rome for a defendant in a trial to seek out an advocate (patronus) to speak on his behalf (Roman practice differed from Greek in this respect: in Greece speakers h ...
2013 HARVARD CERTAMEN NOVICE DIVISION ROUND ONE 1
... D. (Use in place of questions 2, 8, 16, or 20) Zeus gets all the attention for having messy family trees, but the Roman monarchy is no easier. What genealogical relationship did the king Servius Tullius have to Tarquinius Superbus? BROTHER-IN-LAW B1: What genealogical relationship did Tarquinius Sup ...
... D. (Use in place of questions 2, 8, 16, or 20) Zeus gets all the attention for having messy family trees, but the Roman monarchy is no easier. What genealogical relationship did the king Servius Tullius have to Tarquinius Superbus? BROTHER-IN-LAW B1: What genealogical relationship did Tarquinius Sup ...
2014 - Massachusetts Junior Classical League
... B1 Name one case in Latin that can be used to express possession? GENITIVE / DATIVE B2 Which case in Latin is used for direct address? VOCATIVE 19. Which immortal cupbearer of the gods was also the Goddess of Youth? HEBE / JUVENTAS B1 Who were the parents of Hebe? ZEUS AND HERA / JUPITER AND JUNO B2 ...
... B1 Name one case in Latin that can be used to express possession? GENITIVE / DATIVE B2 Which case in Latin is used for direct address? VOCATIVE 19. Which immortal cupbearer of the gods was also the Goddess of Youth? HEBE / JUVENTAS B1 Who were the parents of Hebe? ZEUS AND HERA / JUPITER AND JUNO B2 ...
Cicero in Catilīnam
... In 63 B.C., Marcus Tullius Cicero won the consulship, the highest office in the Roman republic. One of the men whom he defeated in the election was a charismatic nobleman named Lucius Sergius Catilīna – Catiline. Born on 108 B.C. (and thus two years older than Cicero), Catiline came from a recently ...
... In 63 B.C., Marcus Tullius Cicero won the consulship, the highest office in the Roman republic. One of the men whom he defeated in the election was a charismatic nobleman named Lucius Sergius Catilīna – Catiline. Born on 108 B.C. (and thus two years older than Cicero), Catiline came from a recently ...
Scholarship Classical Studies (93404) 2015
... *duoviri sacris faciundis a priesthood of two men – later numbering 15 or 16 – who were in charge of the performance of sacred rites. ...
... *duoviri sacris faciundis a priesthood of two men – later numbering 15 or 16 – who were in charge of the performance of sacred rites. ...
2012
... B2 What city did the Mamertines capture after deserting Syracuse? MESSANA 4. What maiden did Hades carry off to make the queen of the Underworld and his wife? PERSEPHONE B1 What Greek goddess of grain was Persephone’s mother? DEMETER B2 In what Greek town, the site of an ancient mystery cult, were P ...
... B2 What city did the Mamertines capture after deserting Syracuse? MESSANA 4. What maiden did Hades carry off to make the queen of the Underworld and his wife? PERSEPHONE B1 What Greek goddess of grain was Persephone’s mother? DEMETER B2 In what Greek town, the site of an ancient mystery cult, were P ...
2013%Yale%Certamen%Invitational% Novice%Division% Round
... B2 Now do the same for this sentence: “Hermes gave Odysseus moly so that Circe would not be able to turn him into a pig.” IN PORCUM 19. What general from Epirus defeated the Romans at the battles of Heraclea and Asculum, but complained that his losses far outweighed his victories? PYRRHUS B1 Where w ...
... B2 Now do the same for this sentence: “Hermes gave Odysseus moly so that Circe would not be able to turn him into a pig.” IN PORCUM 19. What general from Epirus defeated the Romans at the battles of Heraclea and Asculum, but complained that his losses far outweighed his victories? PYRRHUS B1 Where w ...
Celts and Romans: The Transformation from Natural to Civic Religion
... lived in the time of Augustus, he is the most prolific writer who focused on this early period whose work we still have. In book one Livy discusses how the religion was structured early on in Roman history. “He [Numa Pompilius, an ancient king] then turned his attention to instituting ...
... lived in the time of Augustus, he is the most prolific writer who focused on this early period whose work we still have. In book one Livy discusses how the religion was structured early on in Roman history. “He [Numa Pompilius, an ancient king] then turned his attention to instituting ...
A Sacred People: Roman Identity in the Age of Augustus
... local alternatives to Roman identity. As Thomas Habinek laments, “Classical studies persists in its Romantic preference for the personal over the ideological, for narrative history over cultural studies, and for events and policies over the representations that shape and are shaped by them.”7 As Hab ...
... local alternatives to Roman identity. As Thomas Habinek laments, “Classical studies persists in its Romantic preference for the personal over the ideological, for narrative history over cultural studies, and for events and policies over the representations that shape and are shaped by them.”7 As Hab ...
9 The Arrival of the Magna Mater in Rome
... should be noted first, however, that such a conclusion, while probably correct, must still take into account the weight of ancient tradition associating the two events. By the first century B.C., the time of our earliest sources on the goddess's arrival, the event had been incorporated into the Rom ...
... should be noted first, however, that such a conclusion, while probably correct, must still take into account the weight of ancient tradition associating the two events. By the first century B.C., the time of our earliest sources on the goddess's arrival, the event had been incorporated into the Rom ...
OCR GCSE (9-1) Latin Set Text Guide J282/03 Prose Literature B
... parents and see how visible these are in the texts found in this booklet. All three authors were trained in rhetoric and you can see the skills they gained in their education used to great effect in their writing. ...
... parents and see how visible these are in the texts found in this booklet. All three authors were trained in rhetoric and you can see the skills they gained in their education used to great effect in their writing. ...
In 186 BC, the Roman Senate passed the senatus consultum (S
... brought the Bacchanalian conspiracy to the attention of the consul Postumius. Aebutius and Hispala were real people; we know this because the third S.C. addressed to Postumius authorizes their rewards as informants.22 The chain of events Livy narrates, however, is a romantic literary account that Wa ...
... brought the Bacchanalian conspiracy to the attention of the consul Postumius. Aebutius and Hispala were real people; we know this because the third S.C. addressed to Postumius authorizes their rewards as informants.22 The chain of events Livy narrates, however, is a romantic literary account that Wa ...
BOSTON LATIN ACADEMY CERTAMEN FORUM 2014 NOVICE
... FILI B2: Translate the imperative in that same sentence. VENI ...
... FILI B2: Translate the imperative in that same sentence. VENI ...