Download or read book SPQR A Roman Miscellany written by Anthony Everitt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SPQR: Senatus Populusque Romanus. A moreishly entertaining and richly informative miscellany of facts about Rome and the Roman world. Do you know to what use the Romans put the excrement of the kingfisher? Or why a dinner party invitation from the emperor Domitian was such a terrifying prospect? Or why Roman women smelt so odd? The answers to these questions can be found in SPQR, a compendium of extraordinary facts and anecdotes about ancient Rome and its Empire. Its 500-odd entries range across every area of Roman life and society, from the Empress Livia's cure for tonsillitis to the most reliable Roman methods of contraception.
Download or read book A Roman Miscellany written by Nicholas Schofield and published by Gracewing Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Roman Miscellany written by Hans Michael Schellenberg and published by Akanthina. This book was released on 2008 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony R. Birley, a leading authority in the field of Roman prosopography and well known for his biographies of the emperors Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius and Septimius Severus, was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Manchester from 1974-1990 and at the Heinrich Heine University, Duesseldorf from 1990 until retirement in 2002. Friends, colleagues and pupils have offered him A Roman Miscellany, on a rich variety of topics relating to the Roman Empire, a Festschrift for an outstanding scholar. Eight contributions are in English, one - an excerpt from a historical novel - is in French, the rest are in German. The book is edited by Birleys last three Duesseldorf pupils. After a short introduction, by Hirschmann and Krieckhaus (Statt eines Vorwortes), and a Postscript by Birley himself, there follow the contributions by Bruno Bleckmann (Kritische Passagen zu Konstantin in der Vita Constantini des Eusebios), Lukas de Blois (Soldiers and Leaders in Plutarchs Galba and Otho), Hannah M. Cotton (In Lieu of an Article: Reflexions on Hadrian, Antiochus Epiphanes and the Jews), Werner Eck and Andreas Pangerl (Neue Diplome fuer die Hilfstruppen von Britannia), Mark Hassall (Footnotes to The Fasti), Vera E. Hirschmann (Die phrygische Opposition. Zu Novatianern und Montanisten im westlichen Kleinasien), Peter Lampe (Paulinos Mystes), David Mattingly (Urbanism, epigraphy and identity in the towns of Britain under Roman Rule), François Paschoud (Sulpicii Alexandri ex agente in rebus De uita sua), Olli Salomies (Choosing a Cognomen in Rome. Some Aspects), Hans M. Schellenberg (Anmerkungen zu Heron von Alexandria und seinem Werk ueber den Geschuetzbau), Stefan Sommer (Vereinigungen in Tarsos), Richard Talbert (A Forgotten Masterpiece of Cartography for Roman Historians: Pierre Lapies Orbis Romanus ad Illustranda Itineraria (1845)), Konrad Vössing (Sallust und das 'Massaker von Cirta' 112 v.Chr. (Sall. Iug. 26)), Klaus Wachtel (Fragment einer Bauinschrift aus Sexaginta Prista (Moesia inferior)), Everett L. Wheeler (Pullarii, Marsi, Haruspices, and Sacerdotes in the Roman Imperial Army), David Whitehead (Apollodorus Poliorketika: Author, Date, Dedicatee), Ruprecht Ziegler (Zur Muenzemission in Anemurion (Kilikien) unter Kaiser Maximinus Thrax), Hans M. Schellenberg (Danksagungen mit einer Anmerkung zum Vorhandensein der Vielzahl persönlicher Fotografien), and Birleys Bibliography from 1961 to 2007. The CD-Rom included with the book contains maps illustrating Talberts paper.
Download or read book An English Translation of Claudius Aelianus Varia Historia written by Aelian and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Varia Historia is a miscellany of anecdotes, lists, apophthegms, biographical sketches, and descriptions of natural wonders. The present volume presents Aelian in such a way that his program for selection and compilation of information becomes apparent.
Download or read book You Wouldn t Want to Be a Roman Soldier written by David Stewart and published by The Salariya Book Company. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready... as a young man living in the Roman Empire, you’ve heard many stories about far-away lands and people. It sounds exciting but you’re about to discover how tough life really is for a Roman soldier! This title in the best-selling children’s history series, You Wouldn't Want To…, features full-colour illustrations which combine humour and accurate technical detail and a narrative approach placing readers at the centre of the history, encouraging them to become emotionally-involved with the characters and aiding their understanding of what life would have been like as a Roman soldier. Informative captions, a complete glossary and an index make this title an ideal introduction to the conventions of information books for young readers. It is an ideal text for Key Stage 2 shared and guided reading and helps achieve the goals of the Scottish Standard Curriculum 5-14.
Download or read book Cave Canem written by Lorna Robinson and published by Walker Books. This book was released on 2008-11-11 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Oxford-trained classicist introduces readers to the wonderful, chimeric world of the Latin language. Beautifully illustrated with photos of Roman mosaics, "Cave Canem" brings to life the history and humor behind this world-shaping language.
Download or read book Letter by Letter written by Laurent Pflughaupt and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains twenty-six alphabetically arranged entries describing each letter of the Roman alphabet individually, providing facts about each letter while tracing its history, evolution, and form.
Download or read book An Historical Miscellany written by and published by . This book was released on 1771 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Clement of Alexandria and the Shaping of Christian Literary Practice written by J. M. F. Heath and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary study of Clement of Alexandria's Christian reception of the Classical miscellany genre, in comparison with Roman authors.
Download or read book Christian Intellectuals and the Roman Empire written by Jared Secord and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in the third century, a small group of Greek Christians began to gain prominence and legitimacy as intellectuals in the Roman Empire. Examining the relationship that these thinkers had with the broader Roman intelligentsia, Jared Secord contends that the success of Christian intellectualism during this period had very little to do with Christianity itself. With the recognition that Christian authors were deeply engaged with the norms and realities of Roman intellectual culture, Secord examines the thought of a succession of Christian literati that includes Justin Martyr, Tatian, Julius Africanus, and Origen, comparing each to a diverse selection of his non-Christian contemporaries. Reassessing Justin’s apologetic works, Secord reveals Christian views on martyrdom to be less distinctive than previously believed. He shows that Tatian’s views on Greek culture informed his reception by Christians as a heretic. Finally, he suggests that the successes experienced by Africanus and Origen in the third century emerged as consequences not of any change in attitude toward Christianity by imperial authorities but of a larger shift in intellectual culture and imperial policies under the Severan dynasty. Original and erudite, this volume demonstrates how distorting the myopic focus on Christianity as a religion has been in previous attempts to explain the growth and success of the Christian movement. It will stimulate new research in the study of early Christianity, classical studies, and Roman history.
Download or read book Travel in the Ancient World written by Lionel Casson and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An historical miscellany The third edition written by Historical miscellany and published by . This book was released on 1774 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An historical miscellany The second edition written by HISTORICAL MISCELLANY. and published by . This book was released on 1772 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roman Frugality written by Ingo Gildenhard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman Frugality offers the first-ever systematic analysis of the variants of individual and collective self-restraint that shaped ancient Rome throughout its history and had significant repercussions in post-classical times. In particular, it tries to do the complexity of a phenomenon justice that is situated at the interface of ethics and economics, self and society, the real and the imaginary, and touches upon thrift and sobriety in the material sphere, but also modes of moderation more generally, not least in the spheres of food and drink, sex and power. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach drawing on ancient history, philology, archaeology and the history of thought, the volume traces the role of frugal thought and practice within the evolving political culture and political economy of ancient Rome from the archaic age to the imperial period and concludes with a chapter that explores the reception of ancient ideas of self-restraint in early modern times.
Download or read book A Military Miscellany written by Thomas Ayres and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2006 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect gift for armchair generals, history buffs, and anyone interested in America's proud military tradition, "A Military Miscellany" contains hundreds of anecdotes, lists, charts, quotes, and other compulsively readable trivia.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Roman Britain written by Martin Millett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a twenty-first century perspective on Roman Britain, combining current approaches with the wealth of archaeological material from the province. This volume introduces the history of research into the province and the cultural changes at the beginning and end of the Roman period. The majority of the chapters are thematic, dealing with issues relating to the people of the province, their identities and ways of life. Further chapters consider the characteristics of the province they lived in, such as the economy, and settlement patterns. This Handbook reflects the new approaches being developed in Roman archaeology, and demonstrates why the study of Roman Britain has become one of the most dynamic areas of archaeology. The book will be useful for academics and students interested in Roman Britain.
