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Book Marcus Aurelius in the Historia Augusta and Beyond

Download or read book Marcus Aurelius in the Historia Augusta and Beyond written by Geoffrey William Adams and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the biography of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. It seeks to further understand the author of the Historia Augusta alongside the reminiscences of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Geoff W. Adams arrives at this understanding through a study of a wide range of literary texts. Marcus Aurelius was a very important ruler of the Roman Empire, who has had an impact symbolically, philosophically, and historically upon how the Roman Empire has been envisioned. Adams achieves this end to bring a clearer understanding to his representation and to modern interpretations of his highly interpreted and romanticized representations in the ancient texts.

Book The Historia Augusta

Download or read book The Historia Augusta written by Norman Hepburn Baynes and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pater the Classicist

Download or read book Pater the Classicist written by Charles Martindale and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outcome of a two-day interdisciplinary workshop entitled "Pater the Classicist" held in 2012 at the University of Bristol -- page v.

Book Beyond Dogmatics

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  • Author : John W. Cairns
  • Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
  • Release : 2007-05-25
  • ISBN : 0748631771
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Beyond Dogmatics written by John W. Cairns and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an important contribution to the current lively debate about the relationship between law and society in the Roman world. This debate, which was initiated by the work of John Crook in the 1960's, has had a profound impact upon the study of law and history and has created sharply divided opinions on the extent to which law may be said to be a product of the society that created it. This work is a modest attempt to provide a balanced assessment of the various points of view. The chapters within this book have been specifically arranged to represent the debate. It contains an introductory chapter by Alan Watson, whose views on the relationship between law and society have caused some controversy. In the remaining chapters a distinguished international group of scholars address this debate by focusing on studies of law and empire, codes and codification, death and economics, commerce and procedure. This book does not purport to provide a complete survey of Roman private law in light of Roma

Book The Historia Augusta

Download or read book The Historia Augusta written by Norman Hepburn Baynes and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Marcus Aurelius

Download or read book Marcus Aurelius written by Frank McLynn and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically acclaimed author McLynn pens this masterful and long-overdue biography of Marcus Aurelius, whose life as a philosopher, soldier, and emperor still resonates with contemporary relevance. b&w photographs throughout.

Book Marcus Aurelius

Download or read book Marcus Aurelius written by Henry Dwight Sedgwick and published by AMS Press. This book was released on 1921 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Column of Marcus Aurelius

Download or read book The Column of Marcus Aurelius written by Martin Beckmann and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important monuments of Imperial Rome and at the same time one of the most poorly understood, the Column of Marcus Aurelius has long stood in the shadow of the Column of Trajan. In The Column of Marcus Aurelius, Martin Beckmann makes

Book Rome and the Worlds beyond its Frontiers

Download or read book Rome and the Worlds beyond its Frontiers written by Daniëlle Slootjes and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rome and the Worlds Beyond Its Frontiers examines interactions between those within and those beyond the boundaries of Rome, with an eye to the question of contested identities and identity formations.

Book The Antonines

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  • Author : Michael Grant
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-05-06
  • ISBN : 1317972112
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book The Antonines written by Michael Grant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Antonines - Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Verus and Commodus - played a crucial part in the development of the Roman empire, controlling its huge machine for half a century of its most testing period. Edward Gibbon observed that the epoch of the Antonines, the 2nd century A.D., was the happiest period the world had ever known. In this lucid, authoritative survey, Michael Grant re-examines Gibbon's statement, and gives his own magisterial account of how the lives of the emperors and the art, literature, architecture and overall social condition under the Antonines represented an `age of transition'. The Antonines is essential reading for anyone who is interested in ancient history, as well as for all students and teachers of the subject.

Book Marcus Aurelius

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  • Author : Anthony R Birley
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2012-12-06
  • ISBN : 1134695691
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Marcus Aurelius written by Anthony R Birley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher-emperor who ruled the Roman Empire between AD 161 and 180, is one of the best recorded individuals from antiquity. Even his face became more than usually familiar: the imperial coinage displayed his portrait for over 40 years, from the clean-shaven young heir of Antonius to the war-weary, heavily bearded ruler who died at his post in his late fifties. His correspondence with his tutor Fronto, and even more the private notebook he kept for his last ten years, the Meditations, provides a unique series of vivid and revealing glimpses into the character and peoccupations of this emporer who spent many years in terrible wars against northern tribes. In this accessible and scholarly study, Professor Birley paints a portrait of an emporer who was human and just - an embodiment of the pagan virtues of Rome.

Book The Historia Augusta

Download or read book The Historia Augusta written by Norman Hepburn Baynes and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lives of the Later Caesars

Download or read book Lives of the Later Caesars written by Anthony Birley and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-02-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most controversial of all works to survive from ancient Rome, the Augustan History is our main source of information about the Roman emperors from 117 to 284 AD. Written in the late fourth century by an anonymous author, it is an enigmatic combination of truth, invention and humour. This volume contains the first half of the History, and includes biographies of every emperor from Hadrian to Heliogabalus - among them the godlike Marcus Antonius and his grotesquely corrupt son Commodus. The History contains many fictitious (but highly entertaining) anecdotes about the depravity of the emperors, as the author blends historical fact and faked documents to present our most complete - albeit unreliable - account of the later Roman Caesars.

Book Historia Augusta

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2022-06-28
  • ISBN : 9780674997448
  • Pages : 400 pages

Download or read book Historia Augusta written by and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historia Augusta is a biographical collection written by a single author under six pseudonyms that covers the lives of the Roman emperors from Hadrian (r. 117-138) to Carinus (283-285). While it is our most detailed surviving source for this period, it has more value as an enigmatic work of literary fiction than as history.

Book Verissimus

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  • Author : Donald J. Robertson
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Press
  • Release : 2022-07-12
  • ISBN : 1250286298
  • Pages : 251 pages

Download or read book Verissimus written by Donald J. Robertson and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Logicomix, Donald J. Robertson's Verissimus is a riveting graphic novel on the life and stoic philosophy of Marcus Aurelius. Marcus Aurelius was the last famous Stoic of antiquity but he was also to become the most powerful man in the known world – the Roman emperor. After losing his father at an early age, he threw himself into the study of philosophy. The closest thing history knew to a philosopher-king, yet constant warfare and an accursed plague almost brought his empire to its knees. “Life is warfare”, he wrote, “and a sojourn in foreign land!” One thing alone could save him: philosophy, the love of wisdom! The remarkable story of Marcus Aurelius’ life and philosophical journey is brought to life by philosopher and psychotherapist Donald J. Robertson, in a sweeping historical epic of a graphic novel, based on a close study of the historical evidence, with the stunning full-color artwork of award-winning illustrator Zé Nuno Fraga.

Book The Student s Roman Empire

Download or read book The Student s Roman Empire written by John Bagnell Bury and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: