The Caecilii Metelli - BYU ScholarsArchive
... Because prosopography is most appropriate when used on a small group like a family to ask specific questions, 7 it is especially well-suited to a study of the Caecilii Metelli and their social and political connections. While one must avoid relying on unsubstantiated theories or ideas that are not ...
... Because prosopography is most appropriate when used on a small group like a family to ask specific questions, 7 it is especially well-suited to a study of the Caecilii Metelli and their social and political connections. While one must avoid relying on unsubstantiated theories or ideas that are not ...
- CUNY Academic Works
... the magister equitum, did what was necessary to resolve the need that had created him, after which he resigned immediately, restoring Rome to stability and normality at the earliest possible moment by eliminating the dictatorship along with the crisis that spawned it. Iron precedent bound the consul ...
... the magister equitum, did what was necessary to resolve the need that had created him, after which he resigned immediately, restoring Rome to stability and normality at the earliest possible moment by eliminating the dictatorship along with the crisis that spawned it. Iron precedent bound the consul ...
Honors Thesis
... however, they never served together during that time. It is highly unlikely that Gabinius made substantial connections with Pompey at this time, since they seem to be constantly in different parts of the empire. It is possible that Gabinius joined Pompey in Spain, either as legate or quaestor, but ...
... however, they never served together during that time. It is highly unlikely that Gabinius made substantial connections with Pompey at this time, since they seem to be constantly in different parts of the empire. It is possible that Gabinius joined Pompey in Spain, either as legate or quaestor, but ...
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... to the civil war. However, much of previous scholarship falls short due to its reliance on now discredited ideas about the structure and nature of politics in the late Republic, ideas specifically relating to political alliances based on prosopography. 1 This paper seeks to build upon newer ideas o ...
... to the civil war. However, much of previous scholarship falls short due to its reliance on now discredited ideas about the structure and nature of politics in the late Republic, ideas specifically relating to political alliances based on prosopography. 1 This paper seeks to build upon newer ideas o ...
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... middle and late republican periods (264-31 B.C.) grew ever more cynical toward their religious system. Calculation of personal advantage replaced faith in the gods, and the Roman nobles began to manipulate religion for their individual or collective benefit. Victorious generals erected temples as m ...
... middle and late republican periods (264-31 B.C.) grew ever more cynical toward their religious system. Calculation of personal advantage replaced faith in the gods, and the Roman nobles began to manipulate religion for their individual or collective benefit. Victorious generals erected temples as m ...
History of Roman Literature from its Earliest
... hunting, had no attachment to any peaceful arts, except to rural labours; and this feeling pervaded his legislation. His Sabine successor, Numa Pompilius, who well understood and discharged the duties of sovereignty, divided the whole territory of Rome into different cantons. An exact account was re ...
... hunting, had no attachment to any peaceful arts, except to rural labours; and this feeling pervaded his legislation. His Sabine successor, Numa Pompilius, who well understood and discharged the duties of sovereignty, divided the whole territory of Rome into different cantons. An exact account was re ...
Discontents at Rome: 63 BC By EH Campbell
... (Rome Sauvée 154) Catiline appealed to him not only because of his propensity for revolutionary violence, but also because Ibsen’s and Catiline’s social decline resembled each other. Ben Jonson’s play preserved the traditional legend of Catiline and transmitted it to us in the post-reformation Eliza ...
... (Rome Sauvée 154) Catiline appealed to him not only because of his propensity for revolutionary violence, but also because Ibsen’s and Catiline’s social decline resembled each other. Ben Jonson’s play preserved the traditional legend of Catiline and transmitted it to us in the post-reformation Eliza ...
anthony tropolle life of cicero
... Caesar.[21] Then, when he has passed in a few short chapters over all the intervening history of the Roman Empire, he relates, in pathetic words, the death of Cicero. "It was the custom in Rome to put up on the rostra the heads of those who had been slain; but now the city was not able to restrain i ...
... Caesar.[21] Then, when he has passed in a few short chapters over all the intervening history of the Roman Empire, he relates, in pathetic words, the death of Cicero. "It was the custom in Rome to put up on the rostra the heads of those who had been slain; but now the city was not able to restrain i ...
Sallust
... I prefer to believe what is easy to believe, and that choice helps us explain another glaring contradiction: there is not a hint in Sallust’s account that perhaps Cicero—who was allied with the reactionary aristocrats who called themselves the optimates—had won ...
... I prefer to believe what is easy to believe, and that choice helps us explain another glaring contradiction: there is not a hint in Sallust’s account that perhaps Cicero—who was allied with the reactionary aristocrats who called themselves the optimates—had won ...
Ostroff_Michael_201609_Master of Arts - MacSphere
... Brutus and his colleagues overthrew the last king of Rome and established the Republic in 509, making Brutus the first consul in the process, until Octavian became Augustus and established the principate in 27 with the first constitutional settlement. Throughout their history, the Romans were an ord ...
... Brutus and his colleagues overthrew the last king of Rome and established the Republic in 509, making Brutus the first consul in the process, until Octavian became Augustus and established the principate in 27 with the first constitutional settlement. Throughout their history, the Romans were an ord ...
The Censor in the Late Republican Empire and His Meaning for
... Censors were elected in the Centuriate meeting, with a consul as chairperson. (Note 15) Both censors had to be elected on the same day. If the election was not completed on the same day, it was considered invalid and a new meeting had to be held. (Note 16) Once the censors were elected and the censo ...
... Censors were elected in the Centuriate meeting, with a consul as chairperson. (Note 15) Both censors had to be elected on the same day. If the election was not completed on the same day, it was considered invalid and a new meeting had to be held. (Note 16) Once the censors were elected and the censo ...
The Elogia of the Augustan Forum - MacSphere
... Romulus, and lining the walls of both porticoes, were the statues of the summi viri, the illustrious men of the Republic.28 Some, if not all, ofthe statues and elogia displayed in the Forum were duplicated and set up in several municipalities throughout Italy, and elsewhere. These cities, as the res ...
... Romulus, and lining the walls of both porticoes, were the statues of the summi viri, the illustrious men of the Republic.28 Some, if not all, ofthe statues and elogia displayed in the Forum were duplicated and set up in several municipalities throughout Italy, and elsewhere. These cities, as the res ...
The Early Career of Marius
... alities,1 because factual material was already inaccessible. Such useful and enlivening evidence was rarely, if ever, recorded. The result was very often fanciful myth, but it did allow a writer like Plutarch to arrive at some sort of balance in works which, naturally enough, dealt primarily with ca ...
... alities,1 because factual material was already inaccessible. Such useful and enlivening evidence was rarely, if ever, recorded. The result was very often fanciful myth, but it did allow a writer like Plutarch to arrive at some sort of balance in works which, naturally enough, dealt primarily with ca ...
Coriolanus: The Tragedy of Virtus
... apparent and problematical. The epitomes of Florus, frequently reprinted with Livy, and also a school-text in Renaissance England, present the problem even more sharply. Florus's four books are organized under rubrics that alternate external wars and internal discords. In Book I, after sections on t ...
... apparent and problematical. The epitomes of Florus, frequently reprinted with Livy, and also a school-text in Renaissance England, present the problem even more sharply. Florus's four books are organized under rubrics that alternate external wars and internal discords. In Book I, after sections on t ...
- University of Glasgow
... mark with it, while others did comparatively little during their tenure. Such a contrast may be accounted for by the pontificalis honor (Ovid, Fasti, 3.420) being seen as an end in itself. So tradition and innovation, auctoritas and the perception of power are the matrices in which this priesthood g ...
... mark with it, while others did comparatively little during their tenure. Such a contrast may be accounted for by the pontificalis honor (Ovid, Fasti, 3.420) being seen as an end in itself. So tradition and innovation, auctoritas and the perception of power are the matrices in which this priesthood g ...
i THE GOLDEN AGE OF ROME: AUGUSTUS` PROGRAM TO
... the “good arts” of their ancestors: “Even men of humble birth, who formerly used to surpass the nobility in merit, rather pursue power and honor by intrigue and dishonesty, than by honorable qualifications.” 17 As the power of the Roman Republic increased, the struggle for leadership positions becam ...
... the “good arts” of their ancestors: “Even men of humble birth, who formerly used to surpass the nobility in merit, rather pursue power and honor by intrigue and dishonesty, than by honorable qualifications.” 17 As the power of the Roman Republic increased, the struggle for leadership positions becam ...
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, ...
Augustus - Hirhome.com
... The fundamental question was the nature of the regime that should now rule Rome. Two possibilities were surely to be avoided. The first was Caesar’s style of autocracy; with its contempt for traditional forms of government, and its leanings towards dynasty and divinity, it had only led to his assass ...
... The fundamental question was the nature of the regime that should now rule Rome. Two possibilities were surely to be avoided. The first was Caesar’s style of autocracy; with its contempt for traditional forms of government, and its leanings towards dynasty and divinity, it had only led to his assass ...
Ibid. - meguca.org
... themselves poised on a very different frontier. Ahead of them flowed a narrow stream. On the legionaries’ side was the province of Gaul; on the far side Italy, and the road that led to Rome. Take that road, however, and the soldiers of the 13th Legion would be committing a deadly offence, breaking n ...
... themselves poised on a very different frontier. Ahead of them flowed a narrow stream. On the legionaries’ side was the province of Gaul; on the far side Italy, and the road that led to Rome. Take that road, however, and the soldiers of the 13th Legion would be committing a deadly offence, breaking n ...
ROMAN HISTORY
... or adorn a tale." Let us consider to what extent this is true, and, if true, in what measure the author has sinned by it or we have lost. No one would claim that the rules by which scientific historians of to-day are judged should be applied to those that wrote when history was young, when the bound ...
... or adorn a tale." Let us consider to what extent this is true, and, if true, in what measure the author has sinned by it or we have lost. No one would claim that the rules by which scientific historians of to-day are judged should be applied to those that wrote when history was young, when the bound ...
A Fork in the Road: The Catilinarian Conspiracy`s Impact on Cicero`s
... But concerning friendship, all, to a man, think the same thing: those who have devoted themselves to public life; those who find their joy in science and philosophy; those who manage their own business free from public cares; and, finally, those who are wholly given up to sensual pleasures — all bel ...
... But concerning friendship, all, to a man, think the same thing: those who have devoted themselves to public life; those who find their joy in science and philosophy; those who manage their own business free from public cares; and, finally, those who are wholly given up to sensual pleasures — all bel ...
Augustus` Divine Authority and Vergil`s "Aeneid"
... Was ityour will, О Jupiter,thatpeoples who were to live at peace for all time should clash so violently in war?7 Throughout the Aeneid, Juno is hostile toward Aeneas and the Trojans. Only in the last book is she finally willing to allow the Trojans to settle down in Italy (Aen. 12.807-841). In addit ...
... Was ityour will, О Jupiter,thatpeoples who were to live at peace for all time should clash so violently in war?7 Throughout the Aeneid, Juno is hostile toward Aeneas and the Trojans. Only in the last book is she finally willing to allow the Trojans to settle down in Italy (Aen. 12.807-841). In addit ...
Political Theory
... to normalize the exception. Finally, Roman dictatorship was not itself a form of government, but rather an institutional component of a broader republican regime. Tyranny by contrast was generally treated as a regime-type of its own, albeit a perversion and a deviation of the just forms of political ...
... to normalize the exception. Finally, Roman dictatorship was not itself a form of government, but rather an institutional component of a broader republican regime. Tyranny by contrast was generally treated as a regime-type of its own, albeit a perversion and a deviation of the just forms of political ...
Thesis
... excellent background information into the cultural conflict that provides the setting for the Conspiracy. Biographical information on Cicero also was essential to understanding his actions as Consul, and the work of Plutarch on the life and work of Cicero was invaluable to giving an ancient view of ...
... excellent background information into the cultural conflict that provides the setting for the Conspiracy. Biographical information on Cicero also was essential to understanding his actions as Consul, and the work of Plutarch on the life and work of Cicero was invaluable to giving an ancient view of ...
The Ara Pacis Augustae: Visual Rhetoric in Augustus
... As Augustus indicates, the Ara Pacis was a celebration of his own military success, but it also functioned to garner support for the Julian line and for Augustus’s successor. This second function follows an established and widespread statesponsored campaign to create a political myth connecting the ...
... As Augustus indicates, the Ara Pacis was a celebration of his own military success, but it also functioned to garner support for the Julian line and for Augustus’s successor. This second function follows an established and widespread statesponsored campaign to create a political myth connecting the ...