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Book The Archaic Community of the Romans

Download or read book The Archaic Community of the Romans written by Robert E. A. Palmer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1970-10-02 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the development of archaic Rome which successfully united disparate cultures and integrated them into political life. The author discusses the nature of the evidence and the theories of ancient and modern historians, reconstructs the organisation of the archaic state and traces the deterioration of the curiae.

Book R E A  Palmer  The archaic community of the Romans

Download or read book R E A Palmer The archaic community of the Romans written by Filippo Coarelli and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rezension von  Palmer R E A  the archaic community of the Romans

Download or read book Rezension von Palmer R E A the archaic community of the Romans written by Filippo Coarelli and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Romans

    Book Details:
  • Author : Karl Christ
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN : 9780520056343
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book The Romans written by Karl Christ and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman civilization is one of the bases of the modern world. The extraordinary achievements of Rome--political, military, cultural--and its dramatic, thousand-year history, during which it grew to dominate the whole world of classical antiquity before being overwhelmed in its turn, have been continuously studied and variously interpreted ever since. Rome has been commended for its administration, praised for its system of justice, admired for its arts and technology, extolled for its "virtues," such as love of freedom, independence, discipline, courage, and austerity. It has also been condemned for its aggression, its exploitation of slaves, its excesses, and the decadence that led to its decline. But such was Rome's impact, and so remarkable was the empire it built, that its influence has never ceased to be felt. Whether as a model of political power, of moral behavior, or of social control, Rome with its splendors and triumphs, its failings and disasters, is an inexhaustible quarry for the lessons that its history offers and the legacies that it has bequeathed. Karl Christ conveys the essence of this vital Roman tradition with a coherence and compact precision that few scholars, if any, have been able to achieve. Following the main chronological developments of Roman history, he combines the necessary minimum of political and military narrative with lucid social and economic analysis, separate chapters of Roman ways of life and law, and wide-ranging coverage of literature, art, science, technology, and religion. With maps and photographs as well as a specially prepared bibliography for further reading, The Romans is the most up-to-date, authoritative and comprehensive single-volume introduction to the history and civilization of Ancient Rome.

Book A History of the Roman World

Download or read book A History of the Roman World written by Howard Hayes Scullard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documented survey of Rome's political and military history, the social and economic life of the times, and achievements of the Roman people in art, literature and religion.

Book A History of the Roman World

Download or read book A History of the Roman World written by H. H. Scullard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a new foreword by Tim Cornell ‘Can anyone be so indifferent or idle as not to care to know by what means and under what kind of polity almost the whole inhabited world was conquered and bought under the dominion of a single city of Rome?’ – Polybius, Greek Historian The city of Rome created the foundations of an empire that would come to challenge and conquer the great civilizations of Europe and the Near East. H.H. Scullard’s definitive and highly acclaimed study reveals the peculiar genius of the Roman people, their predilection for law and order and their powers of organization and administration, all of which created a confederation the like of which the Greek World had never seen. He explores the political, military, economic and social history of this incredible empire, showing how the Romans realized an ecumenical ideal and embraced Western Civilization within one political system. Celebrated for its political and military victories as well as its incredible feats of engineering, literature and art. Scullard charts the foundation of Rome, the establishment of the Republic, and its spectacular rise until the fall of Carthage. Scullard not only explores the accomplishments of the empire but vividly delves into the corruptive foreign influences which began to undermine the moral qualities of Rome, when lust for power superseded the desire for law and order. A superb overview of this charged historical epoch, A History of the Roman World takes us inside the pivotal events and struggles which have heavily influenced modern western civilizations.

Book Dionysius and The History of Archaic Rome

Download or read book Dionysius and The History of Archaic Rome written by Emilio Gabba and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The History of Archaic Rome, Dionysius purposely viewed Roman history as an embodiment of all that was best in Greek culture. Gabba places Dionysius's remarkable thesis in its cultural context, comparing this author with other ancient historians and evaluating Dionysius's treatment of his sources. In truth, the last decades B.C. made the historian's task an enormous challenge. On the one hand, the ancient writers knew Rome to be the greatest empire the world had seen, seemingly impregnable in military power and still capable of expansion. On the other hand, they were acutely aware that it recently had barely survived half a century of civil strife. Gabba recalls to us how little was confidently known of Rome's actual origins in an illuminating examination of Dionysius's methodology as a historian.

Book Lykophron s Alexandra  Rome  and the Hellenistic World

Download or read book Lykophron s Alexandra Rome and the Hellenistic World written by Simon Hornblower and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Alexandra' attributed to Lykophron is a notoriously difficult poem but one that sheds crucial light on Greek religion, foundation myths, and myths of colonial identity. This book asserts its importance as a strongly political and historical document, and argues that the probable decade of its composition was a turning-point in Roman history.

Book The Peoples of Ancient Italy

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  • Author : Gary D. Farney
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2017-11-20
  • ISBN : 1614513007
  • Pages : 788 pages

Download or read book The Peoples of Ancient Italy written by Gary D. Farney and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there are many studies of certain individual ancient Italic groups (e.g. the Etruscans, Gauls and Latins), there is no work that takes a comprehensive view of each of them—the famous and the less well-known—that existed in Iron Age and Roman Italy. Moreover, many previous studies have focused only on the material evidence for these groups or on what the literary sources have to say about them. This handbook is conceived of as a resource for archaeologists, historians, philologists and other scholars interested in finding out more about Italic groups from the earliest period they are detectable (early Iron Age, in most instances), down to the time when they begin to assimilate into the Roman state (in the late Republican or early Imperial period). As such, it will endeavor to include both archaeological and historical perspectives on each group, with contributions from the best-known or up-and-coming archaeologists and historians for these peoples and topics. The language of the volume is English, but scholars from around the world have contributed to it. This volume covers the ancient peoples of Italy more comprehensively in individual chapters, and it is also distinct because it has a thematic section.

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 Imperium Sine Fine

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  • Author : Jerzy Linderski
  • Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9783515069489
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Imperium Sine Fine written by Jerzy Linderski and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aus dem Inhalt: George W. Houston: Fasti Broughtoniani: The Professional Activities and Published Works of Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton Working on the Magistrates: An Excerpt from T. R. S. BroughtonAes Autobiography George W. Houston: Broughton Remembered Ronald T. Ridley: T. R. S. Broughton and Friedrich Munzer T. P. Wiseman: The Minucii and Their Monument Robert E. A. Palmer: The Deconstruction of Mommsen on Festus 462/464 L, or the Hazards of Interpretation C. F. Konrad: Notes on Roman Also-Rans Jerzy Linderski: Q. Scipio Imperator Ernst Badian: Tribuni Plebis and Res Publica Erich S. Gruen: The Roman Oligarchy: Image and Perception

Book The Earliest Romans

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  • Author : Ramsay MacMullen
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2011-08-19
  • ISBN : 047211798X
  • Pages : 206 pages

Download or read book The Earliest Romans written by Ramsay MacMullen and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inviting exploration of Rome's founding centuries

Book Race and Ethnicity in Anglo Saxon Literature

Download or read book Race and Ethnicity in Anglo Saxon Literature written by Stephen Harris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes English literature English ? This question inspires Stephen Harris's wide-ranging study of Old English literature. From Bede in the eighth century to Geoffrey of Monmouth in the twelfth, Harris explores the intersections of race and literature before the rise of imagined communities. Harris examines possible configurations of communities, illustrating dominant literary metaphors of race from Old English to its nineteenth-century critical reception. Literary voices in the England of Bede understood the limits of community primarily as racial or tribal, in keeping with the perceived divine division of peoples after their languages, and the extension of Christianity to Bede's Germanic neighbours was effected in part through metaphors of family and race. Harris demonstrates how King Alfred adapted Bede in the ninth century; how both exerted an effect on Archbishop Wulfstan in the eleventh; and how Old English poetry speaks to images of race.

Book The Origins of the Roman Economy

Download or read book The Origins of the Roman Economy written by Gabriele Cifani and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the economic history of the community of Rome from the Iron Age to the early Republic.

Book Ancient Rome

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  • Author : John Coulston
  • Publisher : Oxbow Books
  • Release : 2000-12-01
  • ISBN : 1782975020
  • Pages : 1127 pages

Download or read book Ancient Rome written by John Coulston and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 1127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new book on the archaeology of Rome. The chapters, by an impressive list of contributors, are written to be as up-to-date and useful as possible, detailing lots of new research. There are new maps for the topography and monuments of Rome, a huge research bibliography containing 1,700 titles and the volume is richly illustrated. Essential for all Roman scholars and students. Contents: Preface: a bird's eye view ( Peter Wiseman ); Introduction ( Jon Coulston and Hazel Dodge ); Early and Archaic Rome ( Christopher Smith ); The city of Rome in the Middle Republic ( Tim Cornell ); The moral museum: Augustus and the image of Rome ( Susan Walker ); Armed and belted men: the soldiery in Imperial Rome ( Jon Coulston ); The construction industry in Imperial Rome ( Janet Delaine and G Aldrete ); The feeding of Imperial Rome: the mechanics of the food supply system ( David Mattingly ); `Greater than the pyramids': the water supply of ancient Rome ( Hazel Dodge ); Entertaining Rome ( Kathleen Coleman ); Living and dying in the city of Rome: houses and tombs ( John Patterson ); Religions of Rome ( Simon Price ); Rome in the Late Empire ( Neil Christie ); Archaeology and innovation ( Hugh Petter ); Appendix: Sources for the study of ancient Rome ( Jon Coulston and Hazel Dodge ).

Book Hommages    Maarten J  Vermaseren  Volume 2

Download or read book Hommages Maarten J Vermaseren Volume 2 written by Margreet de Boer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary material /Margreet de Boer and T. A. Edridge -- SARAPIACA I /WILHELM HORNBOSTEL -- A NEW INTERPRETATION OF THE BULL-SLAYING MOTIF /S. INSLER -- ISIS OU LA TYCHÉ D'ALEXANDRIE ? /MARIE-ODILE JENTEL -- LA GRENOUILLE D'ÉTERNITÉ DES PAYS DU NIL AU MONDE MÉDITERRANÉEN /JEAN LECLANT -- UN «PIED DE SARAPIS» À TIMGAD, EN NUMIDIE /MARCEL LE GLAY -- EIN GNOMON AUS EINEM SÜDWEST-DEUTSCHEN MITHRÄUM /WOLFGANG LENTZ and WOLFHARD SCHLOSSER -- STRABO AND THE MEMPHITE TAUROMACHY /ALAN B. LLOYD -- DOCUMENTS NOUVEAUX ET POINTS DE VUE RÉCENTS SUR LES CULTES ISIAQUES EN ITALIE /MICHEL MALAISE -- LES CULTES ORIENTAUX À MICIA (DACIA SVPERIOR) /LIVIU MĂRGHITAN and CONSTANTIN C. PETOLESCU -- LE CULTE DE CYBÈLE DANS LA LIBURNIE ANTIQUE /JULIJAN MEDINI -- VERTRAG UND OPFER IN DER RELIGION DES MITHRAS /R. MERKELBACH -- AGDISTIS OU L'ANDROGYNIE MALSÉANTE /MICHEL MESLIN -- LE DIED SOI-DISANT ANONYME À PALMYRE /ROBERT DU MESNIL DU BUISSON -- UN MONUMENT ÉNIGMATIQUE «DUSARI SACRUM» A POUZZOLES /PAUL G. P. MEYBOOM -- THE CULT OF ORIENTAL DIVINITIES IN CYPRUS: Archaic to Graeco-Roman Times /INO MICHAELIDOU-NICOLAOU -- MARKS, NAMES AND NUMBERS: Further Observations on Solar Symbolism and Ancient Numerology /WALTER O. MOELLER -- SOME NOTES ON THE NAME OF SARAPIS /GERARD MUSSIES -- GEMMES, BAGUES ET AMULETTES MAGIQUES DU SUD DE L'URSS /O. YA. NÉVÉROV -- ORIENTAL DIVINITIES REPRESENTED ON THE CLAY SEALINGS OF PAPHOS, CYPRUS /K. NICOLAOU -- MITHRAIC LADDER SYMBOLS AND THE FRIEDBERG CRATER /HIDEO OGAWA -- ÉLÉMENTS POUR UNE ANALYSE DE PRIAPE CHEZ JUSTIN LE GNOSTIQUE /MAURICE OLENDER -- BETRACHTUNGEN ZUM KULT DES THRAKISCHEN REITERS AUF DEM TERRITORIUM DER VR BULGARIEN /M. OPPERMANN -- MONUMENTS RELATIFS AUX CULTES ÉGYPTIENS À L'ÉPOQUE ROMAINE DU MUSÉE ARCHÉOLOGIQUE DE BARCELONE /J. PADRÓ I PARCERISA and E. SANMARTf-GREGO -- LE CULTE MÉTROAQUE CHEZ LES ALLOBROGES /ANDRÉ PELLETIER -- THE NYMPHS AT POSEIDON'S SANCTUARY /JEANNE MARTY PEPPERS -- NEUE JUPITER-DOLICHENUS WEIHUNGEN AUS VIRUNUM /GERNOT PICCOTTINI -- LISTE DES PLANCHES /WILHELM HORNBOSTEL -- PLANCHES /Margreet de Boer and T. A. Edridge.

Book The Cambridge Ancient History

Download or read book The Cambridge Ancient History written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: