Virgil`s Choice of Aeneas in the Light of His Purpose in Writing the
... ed by the death of his friend Patroclus, and after a wordy debate the two, Aeneas and Achilles, join battle. The significance of the words which passed between Aeneas and Achilles is not to be underestimated; for in these few words, in reply to Achilles, Aeneas gives us his whole genealogy. Zeus beg ...
... ed by the death of his friend Patroclus, and after a wordy debate the two, Aeneas and Achilles, join battle. The significance of the words which passed between Aeneas and Achilles is not to be underestimated; for in these few words, in reply to Achilles, Aeneas gives us his whole genealogy. Zeus beg ...
i Caligula Unmasked
... Again, the DSM- IV specifies conditions that a person must meet in order to be classified as having a “Schizoid Personality Disorder”, and Caligula, according to the literary accounts, does not seem to fall under this category well either.16 As for psychopathy, or antisocial personality disorder, it ...
... Again, the DSM- IV specifies conditions that a person must meet in order to be classified as having a “Schizoid Personality Disorder”, and Caligula, according to the literary accounts, does not seem to fall under this category well either.16 As for psychopathy, or antisocial personality disorder, it ...
File - Imperium
... Read most modern histories of Rome or biographies of the lives of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra and you will be told that Caesar “dallied” in Egypt with Cleopatra for several months in 48-47 B.C., following his defeat of Pompey the Great at the Battle of Pharsalus. What those books don’t tell you is t ...
... Read most modern histories of Rome or biographies of the lives of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra and you will be told that Caesar “dallied” in Egypt with Cleopatra for several months in 48-47 B.C., following his defeat of Pompey the Great at the Battle of Pharsalus. What those books don’t tell you is t ...
CONSTRUCTING CAESAR: JULIUS CAESAR`S
... The intention of the text is to produce the model reader who makes conjectures about the text. “Thus, more than a parameter to use in order to validate the interpretation, the text is an object that the interpretation builds up in the course of the circular effort of validating itself on the basis o ...
... The intention of the text is to produce the model reader who makes conjectures about the text. “Thus, more than a parameter to use in order to validate the interpretation, the text is an object that the interpretation builds up in the course of the circular effort of validating itself on the basis o ...
The Public Image of the Later Severans: Caracalla to
... The third century AD was a time of great change in the Roman Empire, often referred to by scholars as ‘the crisis of the third century.’1 The second half of the third century saw a rapid succession of emperors and usurpers, political uncertainty, and social and economic upheaval. The Severan rule pr ...
... The third century AD was a time of great change in the Roman Empire, often referred to by scholars as ‘the crisis of the third century.’1 The second half of the third century saw a rapid succession of emperors and usurpers, political uncertainty, and social and economic upheaval. The Severan rule pr ...
Caesar`s Legion: The Epic Saga of Julius Caesar`s Elite
... rising in a clear sky on the mild morning of March 17, 45 b.c. After sixteen years of battles in Spain, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Albania, Greece, and North Africa, and having invaded Britain twice, Julius Caesar’s 10th Legion had come full circle, back to its home territory, to fight the b ...
... rising in a clear sky on the mild morning of March 17, 45 b.c. After sixteen years of battles in Spain, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Albania, Greece, and North Africa, and having invaded Britain twice, Julius Caesar’s 10th Legion had come full circle, back to its home territory, to fight the b ...
The Elogia of the Augustan Forum - MacSphere
... sources, the exact details of their respective elogia cannot be determined. 34 Although these individuals are discussed in this study; nevertheless, it is the surviving twenty-eight elogia that are the basis for this thesis. Suetonius asserts that Augustus declared that the individuals honoured in t ...
... sources, the exact details of their respective elogia cannot be determined. 34 Although these individuals are discussed in this study; nevertheless, it is the surviving twenty-eight elogia that are the basis for this thesis. Suetonius asserts that Augustus declared that the individuals honoured in t ...
The World of Elagabalus - Scholar Works at UT Tyler
... focus; their inclusion is necessary because they were vital parts of Elagabalus’ world, but full elaboration would pull the focus away from Elagabalus into world-systems of the longue durée. The simplest and most relevant is that rather than a single Third Century Crisis, there were two crises about ...
... focus; their inclusion is necessary because they were vital parts of Elagabalus’ world, but full elaboration would pull the focus away from Elagabalus into world-systems of the longue durée. The simplest and most relevant is that rather than a single Third Century Crisis, there were two crises about ...
Suetonius The Twelve Caesars - Academic Research Collections
... Book One: XIX Consulship: Strategic Alliances Book One: XX The ‘Consulship of Julius and Caesar’ Book One: XXI Alliance with Pompey Book One: XXII Governor of Gaul Book One: XXIII Threat of Impeachment Book One: XXIV Power Base in Gaul Book One: XXV Campaigns in Britain and Beyond the Rhine Book One ...
... Book One: XIX Consulship: Strategic Alliances Book One: XX The ‘Consulship of Julius and Caesar’ Book One: XXI Alliance with Pompey Book One: XXII Governor of Gaul Book One: XXIII Threat of Impeachment Book One: XXIV Power Base in Gaul Book One: XXV Campaigns in Britain and Beyond the Rhine Book One ...
CAESAR`S INVASION OF BRITAIN NATHAN BRAMAN Bachelor of
... nothing about merchants and other camp followers, maintained a steady stream of correspondence to friends and relatives back in Rome, giving their own details and versions of events. Cicero’s letters to and from his brother are perfect evidence for this regular correspondence.17 It would have been i ...
... nothing about merchants and other camp followers, maintained a steady stream of correspondence to friends and relatives back in Rome, giving their own details and versions of events. Cicero’s letters to and from his brother are perfect evidence for this regular correspondence.17 It would have been i ...
i THE GOLDEN AGE OF ROME: AUGUSTUS` PROGRAM TO
... Now a new progeny is being sent down from high heaven. On the boy being born, by whom the iron will first cease And the golden race will arise in the whole world Only you, chaste Lucina, show favor: Now your Apollo reigns. 11 His image of the savior-child coming to save humanity from suffering is la ...
... Now a new progeny is being sent down from high heaven. On the boy being born, by whom the iron will first cease And the golden race will arise in the whole world Only you, chaste Lucina, show favor: Now your Apollo reigns. 11 His image of the savior-child coming to save humanity from suffering is la ...
Mason Tjuanta - 2010
... maternal great-grand father was Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus and his paternal greatgrandfather was Mark Anthony. At an early age, Gaius accompanied his father on campaigns north of Germania. Gaius would also be dressed in a miniature soldier’s uniform in which the soldiers would give him the nick na ...
... maternal great-grand father was Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus and his paternal greatgrandfather was Mark Anthony. At an early age, Gaius accompanied his father on campaigns north of Germania. Gaius would also be dressed in a miniature soldier’s uniform in which the soldiers would give him the nick na ...
The Role of the Visual Arts in the Transition from Republic to Empire
... could govern them successfully and liberate them from the mistakes of those who came before him.8 Augustus (born Gaius Octavius but referred to as Octavian until after the events of 31BCE) was the adoptive son and chosen heir of Julius Caesar. Caesar’s intentions were clear—by naming a successor he ...
... could govern them successfully and liberate them from the mistakes of those who came before him.8 Augustus (born Gaius Octavius but referred to as Octavian until after the events of 31BCE) was the adoptive son and chosen heir of Julius Caesar. Caesar’s intentions were clear—by naming a successor he ...
Augustus - Hirhome.com
... the first time that he and his partner in the consulship, Agrippa, were coequals. Then, at a carefully staged meeting of the senate in January 27, he handed back all his authority to the senate and the people. To calm members in their alarm, he at once consented to remain consul, and to take respons ...
... the first time that he and his partner in the consulship, Agrippa, were coequals. Then, at a carefully staged meeting of the senate in January 27, he handed back all his authority to the senate and the people. To calm members in their alarm, he at once consented to remain consul, and to take respons ...
Reconstructing religion
... Brothers, will be examined to understand the function of the brotherhood under Augustus. There is very little evidence from the Augustan grove, but there is evidence for the foundations of a temple, as well as of a circus. The circus has been mostly ignored by John Scheid in his work Romulus et s ...
... Brothers, will be examined to understand the function of the brotherhood under Augustus. There is very little evidence from the Augustan grove, but there is evidence for the foundations of a temple, as well as of a circus. The circus has been mostly ignored by John Scheid in his work Romulus et s ...
The Contextual Audiences of Caesar`s De Bello Gallico
... Balsdon’s analysis of the placement of the accounts of winter actions noted above can in fact be extended throughout the work to further reinforce the theory that each book was individually composed in the winter following the year’s events. Book 1 ends with winter but only with the assigning of win ...
... Balsdon’s analysis of the placement of the accounts of winter actions noted above can in fact be extended throughout the work to further reinforce the theory that each book was individually composed in the winter following the year’s events. Book 1 ends with winter but only with the assigning of win ...
PDF-1 - RUcore
... practiced it and embodied Roman identity distinct from Greek roots or counterparts. One way they affected this was by celebrating Vesta’s pre-Roman tradition. Whether the Vestal Virgins predated Rome is dubious, although the foundation story of Rhea Silvia handed down by Livy and Dionysius of Halica ...
... practiced it and embodied Roman identity distinct from Greek roots or counterparts. One way they affected this was by celebrating Vesta’s pre-Roman tradition. Whether the Vestal Virgins predated Rome is dubious, although the foundation story of Rhea Silvia handed down by Livy and Dionysius of Halica ...
The Connection between Caesar`s Writing and Fighting
... four letters at once on important affairs or, if he was doing nothing else, seven letters at once” (7.91). This was a part of Caesar’s legend too: he was remembered not just for his commentaries on the wars that he fought, but for an astonishing ability to produce floods of letters, even under trying ...
... four letters at once on important affairs or, if he was doing nothing else, seven letters at once” (7.91). This was a part of Caesar’s legend too: he was remembered not just for his commentaries on the wars that he fought, but for an astonishing ability to produce floods of letters, even under trying ...
Augustus - Net Texts
... Julius Caesar Augustus.[4] Because of the various names he bore, it is common to call him Octavius when referring to events between 63 and 44 BC, Octavian (or Octavianus) when referring to events between 44 and 27 BC, and Augustus when referring to events after 27 BC. In Greek sources, Augustus is k ...
... Julius Caesar Augustus.[4] Because of the various names he bore, it is common to call him Octavius when referring to events between 63 and 44 BC, Octavian (or Octavianus) when referring to events between 44 and 27 BC, and Augustus when referring to events after 27 BC. In Greek sources, Augustus is k ...
The Pen and the Sword: Writing and Conquest in Caesar`s Gaul
... four letters at once on important affairs or, if he was doing nothing else, seven letters at once” (7.91). This was a part of Caesar’s legend too: he was remembered not just for his commentaries on the wars that he fought, but for an astonishing ability to produce floods of letters, even under trying ...
... four letters at once on important affairs or, if he was doing nothing else, seven letters at once” (7.91). This was a part of Caesar’s legend too: he was remembered not just for his commentaries on the wars that he fought, but for an astonishing ability to produce floods of letters, even under trying ...
Navigating Gaul through the Eyes of Caesar and His Men
... seemed to offer no safe place for Caesar and his men in 52 B.C.E. Roman traders had been slaughtered in Cenabum and all Gaul was hostile to Caesar. Vercingetorix himself merits a character study here simply because of the way Caesar portrays him. He is different from the common Gaul—more sophisticat ...
... seemed to offer no safe place for Caesar and his men in 52 B.C.E. Roman traders had been slaughtered in Cenabum and all Gaul was hostile to Caesar. Vercingetorix himself merits a character study here simply because of the way Caesar portrays him. He is different from the common Gaul—more sophisticat ...
- onehome
... parts of the nomenclature of emperors and their designated successors. Augustus’ own career was taken as the standard for successful government; many of those who came after him—for example, Vespasian (69–79) and Hadrian (117–138)—attempted to set their own reigns on course by indicating that his wo ...
... parts of the nomenclature of emperors and their designated successors. Augustus’ own career was taken as the standard for successful government; many of those who came after him—for example, Vespasian (69–79) and Hadrian (117–138)—attempted to set their own reigns on course by indicating that his wo ...
CICERO`S HISTORICAL APPROACH TO THE BEST REGIME David
... Scipio has been using the term “republic” broadly, so that even in its first phase as a kingdom (traditionally 753-510 BCE), Rome would also be considered a republic. Earlier he has defined a republic (res publica) as “a thing of a people” (res populi) (Rep. 1.39). Thus publica means “of a populus” ...
... Scipio has been using the term “republic” broadly, so that even in its first phase as a kingdom (traditionally 753-510 BCE), Rome would also be considered a republic. Earlier he has defined a republic (res publica) as “a thing of a people” (res populi) (Rep. 1.39). Thus publica means “of a populus” ...
Aeneas or Numa? Rethinking the Meaning of the Ara Pacis
... depiction of Aeneas shows the pious warrior who carries his aged father and leads his young son out of Troy on the night it fell.18 This iconography, already well established throughout central Italy by the fourth century B.C.E. in a variety of media, continued well into the Roman Imperial period. H ...
... depiction of Aeneas shows the pious warrior who carries his aged father and leads his young son out of Troy on the night it fell.18 This iconography, already well established throughout central Italy by the fourth century B.C.E. in a variety of media, continued well into the Roman Imperial period. H ...
Fractured Friendship at the Battle of Munda 45 BC: Julius Caesar
... consultum ultimum or the Ultimate Decree. The Senate retained oversight, but the measure gave the highest government official, the consul Marius, authority to secure the republic by whatever means necessary.39 However, the immediate situation was already out of control. The following day Memmius's s ...
... consultum ultimum or the Ultimate Decree. The Senate retained oversight, but the measure gave the highest government official, the consul Marius, authority to secure the republic by whatever means necessary.39 However, the immediate situation was already out of control. The following day Memmius's s ...