FROM SLAVE TO EMPEROR - THE RACIAL SHIFT IN ROMAN
... All civilizations fall only if the people who made those civilizations vanish. This is a truth, which applies to all races, nations, and people: as long as the people who created a particular civilization survive, and are present in significant numbers, the civilization that they created, will conti ...
... All civilizations fall only if the people who made those civilizations vanish. This is a truth, which applies to all races, nations, and people: as long as the people who created a particular civilization survive, and are present in significant numbers, the civilization that they created, will conti ...
The Gracchi Crisis
... Rome's old regional agricultural economy expanded into an imperial capitalist economy with an explosion of commercial activity. But this activity did not help the ordinary Roman farmer. Many farmers saw their property devastated in the 16 year long struggle against Hannibal. Because of long se ...
... Rome's old regional agricultural economy expanded into an imperial capitalist economy with an explosion of commercial activity. But this activity did not help the ordinary Roman farmer. Many farmers saw their property devastated in the 16 year long struggle against Hannibal. Because of long se ...
Ancient Marbles: Classical Sculpture and Works of Art
... The aesthetic achievements of ancient Rome stand as a great milestone in the history of art, and it is in the area of portraiture that Roman sculpture really comes to the fore and differentiates itself from other artistic traditions. This period’s inclination towards realism and accurate descriptio ...
... The aesthetic achievements of ancient Rome stand as a great milestone in the history of art, and it is in the area of portraiture that Roman sculpture really comes to the fore and differentiates itself from other artistic traditions. This period’s inclination towards realism and accurate descriptio ...
Wednesday, Jan. 10
... is any thing done without such a signal; and in the morning the soldiery go every one to their centurions, and these centurions to their tribunes, to salute them; with whom all the superior officers go to the general of the whole army, who then gives them of course the watchword and other orders, to ...
... is any thing done without such a signal; and in the morning the soldiery go every one to their centurions, and these centurions to their tribunes, to salute them; with whom all the superior officers go to the general of the whole army, who then gives them of course the watchword and other orders, to ...
Book Review American Journal of Archaeology Vol. 115, no. 1
... and the central arena was often flooded so miniature triremes could battle it out for the Romans’ delight.” That the story concerned the Soprintendenza’s plans to restore the site of the Circus Maximus—not the Colosseum— reflects a humorous, if persistent, irony: the circus may have held the greates ...
... and the central arena was often flooded so miniature triremes could battle it out for the Romans’ delight.” That the story concerned the Soprintendenza’s plans to restore the site of the Circus Maximus—not the Colosseum— reflects a humorous, if persistent, irony: the circus may have held the greates ...
ROMANS ON DARTMOOR It is well known that the Romans had a
... it was stated ‘There is…no evidence at present for settled habitation on Dartmoor between about 400 BC and the period of the first Anglo-Saxon settlements about AD 700’, and the moor therefore remained ‘an uninhabited region for several hundred years’. Today this unlikely scenario has been radically ...
... it was stated ‘There is…no evidence at present for settled habitation on Dartmoor between about 400 BC and the period of the first Anglo-Saxon settlements about AD 700’, and the moor therefore remained ‘an uninhabited region for several hundred years’. Today this unlikely scenario has been radically ...
The Roman Empire - A Short History
... In 405 BC, Rome and another city-state, Etruria, entered into a conflict over control of the Tiber River. After several wars and skirmishes, in 351 BC southern Italy was annexed to Rome. One full generation had been involved in the 14 wars in southern Italy. During this period, tribes from Gaul and ...
... In 405 BC, Rome and another city-state, Etruria, entered into a conflict over control of the Tiber River. After several wars and skirmishes, in 351 BC southern Italy was annexed to Rome. One full generation had been involved in the 14 wars in southern Italy. During this period, tribes from Gaul and ...
THE EASTERN INFLUENCE UNDER GREAT THEODERIC`S
... systems emerged such as politics, religion or economy and these elements provided a good criteria for selection. Scholars of the Early Medieval Italy have massive letter collections, such as Paulinus of Nola, Symmachus, Cassiodorus, Ennodius or epitaphs whose illuminate their societies in ways tha ...
... systems emerged such as politics, religion or economy and these elements provided a good criteria for selection. Scholars of the Early Medieval Italy have massive letter collections, such as Paulinus of Nola, Symmachus, Cassiodorus, Ennodius or epitaphs whose illuminate their societies in ways tha ...
The Roman World Takes Shape
... first, all government officials were patricians. Plebeians (plih BEE unz), the farmers, merchants, artisans, and traders who made up the bulk of the population, had little influence. The efforts of the plebeians to gain power shaped politics in the early republic. In time, the plebeians gained the r ...
... first, all government officials were patricians. Plebeians (plih BEE unz), the farmers, merchants, artisans, and traders who made up the bulk of the population, had little influence. The efforts of the plebeians to gain power shaped politics in the early republic. In time, the plebeians gained the r ...
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.