AUGUSTUS, LEGISLATIVE POWER, AND THE POWER OF
... which was the most famous part of his legacy.19 However, the fact that legislation on morals was thought necessary was in itself an admission of failure of the Roman state to attain a golden age of its own accord.20 The marriage laws passed in 17 BC comprised the Lex Julia de maritandis ordinibus an ...
... which was the most famous part of his legacy.19 However, the fact that legislation on morals was thought necessary was in itself an admission of failure of the Roman state to attain a golden age of its own accord.20 The marriage laws passed in 17 BC comprised the Lex Julia de maritandis ordinibus an ...
Recreating Roman Wax Masks
... part of the house—indeed, part of its identity—they were probably made there. Within any elite house, the peristyle garden would have been the most likely place of production, in that water and sunlight were readily available and there was an abundance of open space, making cleanup at the end of the ...
... part of the house—indeed, part of its identity—they were probably made there. Within any elite house, the peristyle garden would have been the most likely place of production, in that water and sunlight were readily available and there was an abundance of open space, making cleanup at the end of the ...
Roman Verism Portraiture
... Verism can best be explained as a style of art that emphasized “. . . a somewhat dry realism, a realism which shows the person portrayed as he really is, without idealizing tendencies, with wrinkles and warts and other physical defects . . .” (Richter 39). In this sense, the art showed a strong sens ...
... Verism can best be explained as a style of art that emphasized “. . . a somewhat dry realism, a realism which shows the person portrayed as he really is, without idealizing tendencies, with wrinkles and warts and other physical defects . . .” (Richter 39). In this sense, the art showed a strong sens ...
Coliseum/Circus Maximus
... beginning with comedic contests and exotic animal shows in the morning and moving on to professional gladiator events in the afternoon. – In all shows, death played a prominent role. – During the Colosseum's opening ceremonies in A.D. 80, spectacles were held for 100 days in which hundreds of animal ...
... beginning with comedic contests and exotic animal shows in the morning and moving on to professional gladiator events in the afternoon. – In all shows, death played a prominent role. – During the Colosseum's opening ceremonies in A.D. 80, spectacles were held for 100 days in which hundreds of animal ...
Sample Chapter 4 - McGraw Hill Higher Education
... Ancient scholars relied on myths to date the “founding” of Rome in 753 B.C. We need not take this date seriously as the moment at which Rome came into existence, but there must have been considerable habitation in the area by that time, especially on the seven hills that surround the city. About 625 ...
... Ancient scholars relied on myths to date the “founding” of Rome in 753 B.C. We need not take this date seriously as the moment at which Rome came into existence, but there must have been considerable habitation in the area by that time, especially on the seven hills that surround the city. About 625 ...
www.ssoar.info The system of punishments in the Ancient Rome
... The sentence could provide possibility of homecoming after some time; if it was no term, the banished could not come back. The only unpunishable reason, when the banished could return from exile, was the desire to see the emperor or to have petition before him (if the emperor did not forbid such pet ...
... The sentence could provide possibility of homecoming after some time; if it was no term, the banished could not come back. The only unpunishable reason, when the banished could return from exile, was the desire to see the emperor or to have petition before him (if the emperor did not forbid such pet ...
Life in the Roman Empire - Brookings School District
... gladiators. The Thracian was lightly armed and the Samnite was heavily armed. Usually a lightly armed man fought a heavily armed man. But as time went on, the Roman spectators wanted more variety and more violence. Men fought while blindfolded, dwarfs battled, and even women fought to the death! Whe ...
... gladiators. The Thracian was lightly armed and the Samnite was heavily armed. Usually a lightly armed man fought a heavily armed man. But as time went on, the Roman spectators wanted more variety and more violence. Men fought while blindfolded, dwarfs battled, and even women fought to the death! Whe ...
Peter Temin, The Roman Market Economy, Princeton, NJ: Princeton
... In this regard, a useful distinction between market prices and administered prices is worth mentioning here: “[m]arket prices are the results of purchases and sales in markets. They are free to vary over time [. . . ] Administered prices, by contrast, change only infrequently. [. . . They] only chan ...
... In this regard, a useful distinction between market prices and administered prices is worth mentioning here: “[m]arket prices are the results of purchases and sales in markets. They are free to vary over time [. . . ] Administered prices, by contrast, change only infrequently. [. . . They] only chan ...
Alpine regiments of the Roman army
The Alpine regiments of the Roman army were those auxiliary units of the army that were originally raised in the Alpine provinces of the Roman Empire: Tres Alpes, Raetia and Noricum. All these regions were inhabited by predominantly Celtic-speaking tribes. They were annexed, or at least occupied, by the emperor Augustus' forces during the period 25-14 BC. The term ""Alpine"" is used geographically in this context and does not necessarily imply that the regiments in question were specialised in mountain warfare. However, in the Julio-Claudian period (ante AD 68), when the regiments were still largely composed of Alpine recruits, it is likely that they were especially adept at mountain operations.As would be expected from mountain people, the Alpine provinces predominantly supplied infantry; only one Alpine cavalry ala is recorded. About 26 Alpine regiments were raised in the Julio-Claudian period, the great majority under Augustus or his successor Tiberius (i.e. before AD 37). Of these, 6 regiments disappeared, either destroyed in action or disbanded, by AD 68. A further 2 regiments were raised by Vespasian (ruled 69-96). These and the 20 surviving Julio-Claudian units are recorded at least until the mid 2nd century, but by that time only around a quarter were still based in the Alpine provinces or in neighbouring Germania Superior (Upper Rhine area). The rest were scattered all over the empire and would probably have long since lost their ethnic Alpine identity through local recruitment.