Download or read book The British Museum Pocket Dictionary of Roman Emperors written by Paul Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title introduces young readers to several important rulers of ancient Rome, the largest empire in the ancient world. The extraordinary cast of characters are described in short entries, with illustrations from the collections of the British Museum.
Download or read book A Pocket Dictionary of Roman Emperors written by Paul Roberts and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Roman Empire was one of the greatest political powers of the ancient world, encircling the entire Mediterranean Sea and lasting for nearly five centuries. This illustrated dictionary traces the history of twenty-seven of the empire's supreme rulers. Meet Trajan, who pushed the empire's frontiers to their greatest extent; Hadrian, who built his famous wall and the Pantheon; Septimius Severus, the African emperor who rebuilt Rome and the empire after ruinous wars; and Constantine, who reunited the empire and made Christianity the official religion. Then read about the emperors who were mad, bad, and dangerous to know: Nero, who murdered his relatives and swept away much of Rome to build his Palace; and Caligula and Domitian, who were infamous for their curelty and extreme behavior."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Roman Emperors written by Paul Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title introduces young readers to several important rulers of ancient Rome, the largest empire in the ancient world. The extraordinary cast of characters are described in short entries, with illustrations from the collections of the British Museum.
Download or read book The Ancient Romans written by Paul Roberts and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces ancient Roman society and the everyday life of people of different classes and occupations.
Download or read book The British Museum Concise Introduction to Ancient Rome written by Nancy H. Ramage and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible and beautifully illustrated survey of the world of Ancient Rome
Download or read book British Museum Catalogue of printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roman Army written by Richard Anthony Abdy and published by British Museum Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman empire was the largest in the ancient world. It was an amazing military machine, whose legionaries conquered the entire Mediterranean basin. In the Republican period the soldiers of Rome were part-timers, but as Rome fought more and more wars, and gained a huge empire which it needed to control and defend, it needed a permanent army. Men volunteered to enlist as legionaries: after 25 years service they were discharged with money or land. The army was organised into centuries which contained, not 100, but 80 men. A group of centuries made up a cohort, and ten cohorts made up a legion: some 5,000 men in all. Each legion had its enlisted men and officers, plus specialists such as doctors, clerks and veterinary surgeons to tend to the horses. The legionaries were well-armed, well-trained and physically fit. They had to learn to fight in armour with sword and dagger, build camps and forts, and three times a month they had to march 30 km (over 18 miles) with full packs. Short entries describe the structure of the army, the soldiers and officers, and their weapons and armour. The entries are illustrated with real weapons and armour, and sculptures and reliefs of Roman soldiers, from the collections of the BM, along with coloured drawings reconstructing the appearance of legionaries.
Download or read book Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years MDCCCXLI MDCCCXLV written by British Museum. Department of Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Coins and Medals and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Staging Memory Staging Strife written by Lauren Donovan Ginsberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The turbulent decade of the 60s CE brought Rome to the brink of collapse. It began with Nero's ruthless elimination of Julio-Claudian rivals and ended in his suicide and the civil wars that followed. Suddenly Rome was forced to confront an imperial future as bloody as its Republican past and a ruler from outside the house of Caesar. The anonymous historical drama Octavia is the earliest literary witness to this era of uncertainty and upheaval. In Staging Memory, Staging Strife, Lauren Donovan Ginsberg offers a new reading of how the play intervenes in the contests over memory after Nero's fall. Though Augustus and his heirs had claimed that the Principate solved Rome's curse of civil war, the play reimagines early imperial Rome as a landscape of civil strife with a ruling family waging war both on itself and on its people. In doing so, the Octavia shows how easily empire becomes a breeding ground for the passions of discord. In order to rewrite the history of Rome's first imperial dynasty, the Octavia engages with the literature of Julio-Claudian Rome, using the words of Rome's most celebrated authors to stage a new reading of that era and its ruling family. In doing so, the play opens a dialogue about literary versions of history and about the legitimacy of those historical accounts. Through an innovative combination of intertextual analysis and cultural memory theory, Ginsberg contextualizes the roles that literature and the literary manipulation of memory play in negotiating the transition between the Julio-Claudian and Flavian regimes. Her book claims for the Octavia a central role in current debates over both the ways in which Nero and his family were remembered as well as the politics of literary and cultural memory in the early Roman empire.
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Download or read book The English Cyclopaedia written by Charles Knight and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook to the Library of the British Museum Containing a Brief History of Its Formation and of the Various Collections of which it is Composed etc written by Richard Sims and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Year MDCCCXLI MDCCCXLV written by British Museum. Department of Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Analytical and Classified Catalogue of the Library of the Parliament of Queensland written by Queensland. Parliament. Library and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
