Names of Historians for Different Periods of Ancient Rome
... point the information contained in this way was published in 80 books and this record purported to preserve events going back to the very foundation of the city (seemingly the Republic began around the eleventh book). It is not known whether the material kept on the boards was in some way reworked w ...
... point the information contained in this way was published in 80 books and this record purported to preserve events going back to the very foundation of the city (seemingly the Republic began around the eleventh book). It is not known whether the material kept on the boards was in some way reworked w ...
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 ...
Chapter 9: The Rise of Rome
... the southwind there, I plotted out on that curved shore the walls of a colony—though fate opposed it—and I devised the name Aeneadae for the peoVirgil ple, from my own.” —adapted from Virgil, Aeneid ...
... the southwind there, I plotted out on that curved shore the walls of a colony—though fate opposed it—and I devised the name Aeneadae for the peoVirgil ple, from my own.” —adapted from Virgil, Aeneid ...
L. Verginius Rufus, 14
... Caving under political pressure, the unstable Nero committed suicide. When Verginius Rufus' troops tried to proclaim him the new emperor, he steadfastly refused the honor on the grounds that his lowly origins (he was the son of a Roman knight and a new man of an equestrian family) were insufficientl ...
... Caving under political pressure, the unstable Nero committed suicide. When Verginius Rufus' troops tried to proclaim him the new emperor, he steadfastly refused the honor on the grounds that his lowly origins (he was the son of a Roman knight and a new man of an equestrian family) were insufficientl ...
FROM POPLICOLA TO AUGUSTUS: SENATORIAL HOUSES IN
... people objected that the location, a beautiful spot on the top of the Velia, literally elevated the consul. The site was surrounded by steep slopes and difficult to access; it was high over the Forum and enjoyed a commanding view of all that passed there. The thought of Poplicola descending from his ...
... people objected that the location, a beautiful spot on the top of the Velia, literally elevated the consul. The site was surrounded by steep slopes and difficult to access; it was high over the Forum and enjoyed a commanding view of all that passed there. The thought of Poplicola descending from his ...
The Gracchi and the Era of Grain Reform in Ancient Rome
... removing him from the chamber and pushed the proposal into law. This action was Tiberius’ downfall. His conduct “had offended not only the aristocratic party but even the people.” 27 On the day he was to be up for reelection, his supporters heard of a plot to kill Tiberius and a riot broke out in th ...
... removing him from the chamber and pushed the proposal into law. This action was Tiberius’ downfall. His conduct “had offended not only the aristocratic party but even the people.” 27 On the day he was to be up for reelection, his supporters heard of a plot to kill Tiberius and a riot broke out in th ...
Presentation Plus! - Central Dauphin School District
... • He was killed in a riot staged by the Senate when he ran for a second term as tribune. • In 123 B.C., Tiberius Gracchus’s younger brother, Gaius Gracchus, was elected tribune. • When the Senate began to feel threatened by his ideas in 121 B.C. they had him killed. ...
... • He was killed in a riot staged by the Senate when he ran for a second term as tribune. • In 123 B.C., Tiberius Gracchus’s younger brother, Gaius Gracchus, was elected tribune. • When the Senate began to feel threatened by his ideas in 121 B.C. they had him killed. ...
