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Book Libri Annales Pontificum Maximorum

Download or read book Libri Annales Pontificum Maximorum written by Bruce W. Frier and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important point of departure for studies in early Roman history.

Book Between Republic and Empire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kurt A. Raaflaub
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-04-28
  • ISBN : 0520914511
  • Pages : 519 pages

Download or read book Between Republic and Empire written by Kurt A. Raaflaub and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing five major areas of Augustan scholarship—historiography, poetry, art, religion, and politics—the nineteen contributors to this volume bring us closer to a balanced, up-to-date account of Augustus and his principate.

Book Ennius and the Architecture of the Annales

Download or read book Ennius and the Architecture of the Annales written by Jackie Elliott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines a critical survey of the ancient sources for Ennius' Annales with fresh interpretation of the surviving record.

Book A History of Roman Literature

Download or read book A History of Roman Literature written by Michael von Albrecht and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1997 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book War and Society in Early Rome

Download or read book War and Society in Early Rome written by Jeremy Armstrong and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues for an entirely new understanding of early Roman society visible through the evolution of early Roman warfare.

Book Social Struggles in Archaic Rome

Download or read book Social Struggles in Archaic Rome written by Kurt A. Raaflaub and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This widely respected study of social conflicts between the patrician elite and the plebeians in the first centuries of the Roman republic has now been enhanced by a new chapter on material culture, updates to individual chapters, an updated bibliography, and a new introduction. Analyzes social conflicts between patricians and plebeians in early republican Rome Includes chapters by leading scholars from both sides of the Atlantic illuminating social, economic, legal, religious, military, and political aspects as well as the reliability of historical sources Contributors have written addenda for the new edition, updating their chapters in light of recent scholarship

Book A Commentary on Cicero  De Legibus

Download or read book A Commentary on Cicero De Legibus written by Andrew Roy Dyck and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Andrew R. Dyck's full commentary on this work is the first to appear in English or any other language for over a century. Whereas previous commentaries focused primarily on grammar and textual criticism, this one, while not neglecting those areas, insightfully relates the text to the trends, political, philosophical, and religious, of Cicero's times; identifies the influences on Cicero's thinking; and analyzes the relation of this theoretical treatise to his other utterances, public and private, of the time."--BOOK JACKET.

Book A History of Roman Literature  2 vols

Download or read book A History of Roman Literature 2 vols written by M. von Albrecht and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 1864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael von Albrecht's A History of Roman Literature, originally published in German, can rightly be seen as the long awaited counterpart to Albin Lesky's Geschichte der Griechischen Literatur. In what will probably be the last survey made by a single scholar the whole of Latin literature from Livius Andronicus up to Boethius comes to the fore. 'Literature' is taken here in its broad, antique sense, and therefore also includes e.g. rhetoric, philosophy and history. Special attention has been given to the influence of Latin literature on subsequent centuries down to our own days. Extensive indices give access to this monument of learning. The introductions in Von Albrecht's texts, together with the large bibliographies make further study both more fruitful and easy.

Book Ab urbe condita

    Book Details:
  • Author : Livy
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1994-11-17
  • ISBN : 9780521422383
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book Ab urbe condita written by Livy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-11-17 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book VI of Livy's Ab urbe condita covers the history of Rome from 390 to 367 BC, a period during which the city, while in the process of recovering from being sacked by the Gauls, faced serious civil disturbance, the resolution of which fundamentally changed the structure of Roman society. This edition considers the historical text from a literary and historiographical perspective: the Commentary contains a detailed analysis of Livy's narrative style and structure, with particular focus on his language and use of commonplaces, while the Introduction discusses the didactic nature of the Ab urbe condita and situates Livy's sophisticated and challenging work in the ancient historiographical tradition. Special attention is paid to the role of the reader, and to the relationship between the style and the kind of history being written. Issues of contemporary Augustan politics are also discussed.

Book Annales

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cornelius Tacitus
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN : 9780521315432
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Annales written by Cornelius Tacitus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described as the "best that Tacitus ever wrote", the fourth book of his Annals covers the years AD 23-28, when Tacitus noted deterioration in the principate of the emperor Tiberius and the increasingly malign influence of his "evil genius" Sejanus.

Book Religion and Memory in Tacitus  Annals

Download or read book Religion and Memory in Tacitus Annals written by Kelly E. Shannon-Henderson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his narrative of Julio-Claudian Rome in the Annals, Tacitus includes numerous references to the gods, fate, fortune, astrology, omens, temples, priests, the emperor cult, and other religious material. Though scholars have long considered Tacitus' discussion of religion of minor importance, this volume demonstrates the significance of such references to an understanding of the work as a whole by analyzing them using cultural memory theory, which views religious ritual as a key component in any society's efforts to create a lived version of the past that helps define cultural identity in the present. Tacitus, who was not only an historian, but also a member of Rome's quindecimviral priesthood, shows a marked interest in even the most detailed rituals of Roman religious life, yet his portrayal of religious material also suggests that the system is under threat with the advent of the principate. Some traditional rituals are forgotten as the shape of the Roman state changes while, simultaneously, a new form of cultic commemoration develops as deceased emperors are deified and the living emperor and his family members are treated in increasingly worshipful ways by his subjects. This study traces the deployment of religious material throughout Tacitus' narrative in order to show how he views the development of this cultic "amnesia" over time, from the reign of the cryptic, autocratic, and oddly mystical Tiberius, through Claudius' failed attempts at reviving tradition, to the final sacrilegious disasters of the impious Nero. As the first book-length treatment of religion in the Annals, it reveals how these references are a key vehicle for his assessment of the principate as a system of government, the activities of individual emperors, and their impact on Roman society and cultural identity.

Book Sacred Words  Orality  Literacy and Religion

Download or read book Sacred Words Orality Literacy and Religion written by André Lardinois and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveying the variety of ways in which written texts and oral discourse were involved in ancient religions, the contributions to this volume show that oral and written forms were intricately connected in both Greek and Roman state and private religions.

Book Public Office in Early Rome

Download or read book Public Office in Early Rome written by Roberta Stewart and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather than looking at particular individuals and personalities in Roman politics, Stewart focuses on the religious institution of the allotment of duties among elected officials. She traces the definition of allotments and their historical development with examples from the Reforms of 444, 406 and 367 BC.

Book The Fragments of the Roman Historians

Download or read book The Fragments of the Roman Historians written by Tim Cornell and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 2719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This title is a definitive and comprehensive edition of the fragmentary texts of all the Roman historians whose works are lost. Historical writing was an important part of the literary culture of ancient Rome, and its best-known exponents, including Sallust, Livy, Tacitus, and Suetonius, provide much of our knowledge of Roman history. However, these authors constitute only a small minority of the Romans who wrote historical works from around 200 BC to AD 250. In this period we know of more than 100 writers of history, biography, and memoirs whose works no longer survive for us to read. They include well-known figures such as Cato the Elder, Sulla, Cicero, and the emperors Augustus, Tiberius, Claudius, Hadrian, and Septimius Severus"--Page 4 of cover.

Book The Tacitus Encyclopedia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Victoria Emma Pagán
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2023-05-24
  • ISBN : 1119743338
  • Pages : 1883 pages

Download or read book The Tacitus Encyclopedia written by Victoria Emma Pagán and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-05-24 with total page 1883 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tacitus Encyclopedia ist das einzige vollständige Referenzwerk seiner Art im Bereich der Tacitus-Studien. Das zweibändige Werk enthält mehr als 1.000 Einträge zu jeder Person und jedem Ort, die in den erhaltenen Werken des römischen Historikers und Politikers Tacitus (ca. 56-120 n. Chr.) Erwähnung finden. In den von einem internationalen Autorenteam verfassten Beiträgen werden die bei Tacitus genannten Personen und Orte in den Kontext eingeordnet, und es werden ihre Beziehungen zum größeren taciteischen Korpus aufgezeigt. Die Einträge sind alphabetisch geordnet und mit Querverweisen versehen. Sie enthalten allgemeine Beschreibungen und Hintergrundinformationen zu den in den Texten genannten Stichworten, Zitate aus antiken Quellen und der einschlägigen Wissenschaft sowie Empfehlungen zum Weiterlesen. Die Enzyklopädie, die als Ausgangspunkt für weitere Forschungen gedacht ist, umfasst zudem 165 Themenschwerpunkte in Verbindung mit den Tacitus-Studien, darunter antike Geschichtsschreibung, Geschichte, Sozialgeschichte, Geschlecht und Sexualität, Literaturkritik, antike Autoren, Rezeption und materielle Kultur. Dieses unverzichtbare Nachschlagewerk bietet nicht nur einen umfassenden Überblick über die Inhalte der taciteischen Schriften, sondern darüber hinaus: * Eine Darstellung von rund 1.000 Personen sowie 400 Regionen, Städten und Orten, geografischen und topologischen Merkmalen * Einen verständlichen Einstieg in die Werke des Tacitus, insbesondere die Annalen, Historien, Agricola, Germania und Dialogus de oratoribus für Leserinnen und Leser mit unterschiedlichen Vorkenntnissen * Die Erörterung einer großen Bandbreite an Themen wie Geschlechterfragen, Sklaverei, Literaturgeschichte sowie der Regentschaft einzelner Herrscher * Eine Präsentation der wissenschaftlichen Erforschung und Rezeption von Tacitus von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart * Betrachtungen der wissenschaftlichen Trends, der aktuellen Methodik und künftigen Richtungen der Tacitus-Studien Das Werk The Tacitus Encyclopedia ist als Druckfassung und als Online-Version erhältlich. Es ist ein unentbehrliches Referenzwerk für Studierende und Forschende in den Bereichen Geschichte und Geschichtsschreibung, Klassische Philologie, Kunstgeschichte, Sozialwissenschaften, Europäische Geistesgeschichte, Archäologie und Romanistik.

Book The Oxford Classical Dictionary

Download or read book The Oxford Classical Dictionary written by Simon Hornblower and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 1650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised third edition of the 'Oxford Classical Dictionary' is the ultimate reference on the classical world containing over 6,200 entries. The 2003 revision includes minor corrections and updates and all Latin and Greek words in the text are now translated into English.

Book The Medieval Chronicle VIII

Download or read book The Medieval Chronicle VIII written by Erik Kooper and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents Contributors Preface Julia Marvin: Latinity and Vernacularity in the Tradition of Geoffrey of Monmouth: Text, Apparatus and Readership Erik Kooper: Content Markers in the Manuscripts of Robert of Gloucester¿s Chronicle Dániel Bagi: Genealogische Fälschungen und Fiktionen als Legitimierungsmittel in narrativen Quellen des Östlichen Europas im 11¿13. Jahrhundert Isabel de Barros Dias: The Emperor, the Archbishop and the Saint: One Event Told in Different Textual Forms Anders Bengtsson: L¿Essor de la proposition participiale dans la prose historique Cristian Bratu : Translatio, autorité et affirmation de soi chez Gaimar, Wace et Benoît de Sainte-Maure R. W. Burgess and Michael Kulikowski: Medieval Historiographical Terminology: The Meaning of the Word Annales Nicholas Coureas: The Conquest of Cyprus during the Third Crusade according to Greek Chronicles from Cyprus Isabelle Guyot-Bachy : La Chronique abrégée des rois de France et les Grandes chroniques de France: concurrence ou complémentarité dans la construction d¿une culture historique en France à la fin du Moyen ge? Mihkel Mäesalu: A Crusader Conflict Mediated by a Papal Legate: The Chronicle of Henry of Livonia as a Legal Text Adrien Quéret-Podesta : Le Gallus anonymus et l¿abbaye de Saint Gilles du Gard Lisa M. Ruch: Digression or Discourse? William of Newburgh¿s Ghost Stories as Urban Legends Biörn Tjällén: Political Thought and Political Myth in Late Medieval National Histories: Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo (¿1470)