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Author : Enrico Dal Covolo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Gli imperatori Severi written by Enrico Dal Covolo and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wouter Vanacker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317118472
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Imperial Identities in the Roman World written by Wouter Vanacker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the debate on Romanisation has often been framed in terms of identity. Discussions have concentrated on how the expansion of empire impacted on the constructed or self-ascribed sense of belonging of its inhabitants, and just how the interaction between local identities and Roman ideology and practices may have led to a multicultural empire has been a central research focus. This volume challenges this perspective by drawing attention to the processes of identity formation that contributed to an imperial identity, a sense of belonging to the political, social, cultural and religious structures of the Empire. Instead of concentrating on politics and imperial administration, the volume studies the manifold ways in which people were ritually engaged in producing, consuming, organising, believing and worshipping that fitted the (changing) realities of empire. It focuses on how individuals and groups tried to do things 'the right way', i.e., the Greco-Roman imperial way. Given the deep cultural entrenchment of ritualistic practices, an imperial identity firmly grounded in such practices might well have been instrumental, not just to the long-lasting stability of the Roman imperial order, but also to the persistence of its ideals well into (Christian) Late Antiquity and post-Roman times.
Author : Jan N. Bremmer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191617830
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Perpetua's Passions written by Jan N. Bremmer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perpetua's Passions is a collection of studies about Perpetua, a young female Christian martyr who was executed in 203 AD. Like her spiritual guide, Saturus, Perpetua left a diary, and a few years after their deaths a fellow Christian collected these writings and supplied them with an introduction and epilogue: the so-called Passion of Perpetua. The result is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic works of antiquity, which the present volume examines from a wide range of perspectives: literary, narratological, historical, religious, psychological, and philosophical viewpoints follow upon a newly edited text and English translation (by Joseph Farrell and Craig Williams). This innovative treatment by a number of distinguished scholars not only complements its unique subject, but constitutes a kind of laboratory of new approaches to ancient texts.
Author : David Stone Potter
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415100588
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Roman Empire at Bay, AD 180-395 written by David Stone Potter and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the outset of the period covered by this book, Rome was the greatest power in the world. By its end, it had fallen conclusively from this dominant position. David Potter's comprehensive survey of two critical and eventful centuries traces the course of imperial decline.
Author : Barbara K. Gold
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190905298
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Perpetua written by Barbara K. Gold and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perpetua was an early Christian martyr who died in Roman Carthage in 203 CE, along with several fellow martyrs, including one other woman, Felicitas. She has attracted great interest for two main reasons: she was one of the earliest martyrs, especially female martyrs, about whom we have any knowledge, and she left a narrative written in prison just before she went to her death in the amphitheater. Her narrative is embedded in a tripartite telling of the arrest and deaths of these martyrs, the Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis. The other two parts of her tale were written by Saturus, a fellow martyr and probably her teacher, and a nameless editor or confessor, who introduces her circumstances and group and then tells of her death after she stops writing. Her story is steeped in mystery, and every aspect of her life and death has generated much controversy. Some do not believe that she herself could have written the narrative: the circumstances of her imprisonment and the limitations of her ability to write such a rhetorically complex tale are inconceivable. Some believe that her editor was none other then Tertullian, the famous 2nd-3rd century church father and Perpetua's fellow north African. Some, including Augustine, wonder why the feast day was named only for Perpetua and Felicitas and not for her fellow male martyrs. Some believe that these martyr tales were largely fabricated or constructed in order to generate publicity for the early Christians. This book will investigate and try to make sense of all aspects of Perpetua's life, death, and circumstances: her family and life in Carthage, Christians and Romans in Carthage and in the Roman empire in this period, the comparisons of martyrs to athletes, the influence of these martyr tales upon the Acts of the Apostles and the Greek novel, the reactions of later church fathers like Augustine to her story and her popularity, and the gendering of this text.
Author : Simon Swain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521859824
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Severan Culture written by Simon Swain and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-04 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys the Severan period's many developments in literature, philosophy, religion, art, archaeology and culture.
Author : Barbara Levick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195379411
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Faustina I and II written by Barbara Levick and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A learned study of a mother and daughter, both the wives of emperors, and their importance in the golden age of the Roman Empire.
Author : Eliezer Gonzalez
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161529443
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (294 download)
Download or read book The Fate of the Dead in Early Third Century North African Christianity written by Eliezer Gonzalez and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2014-02-24 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ideology and imagery in the Passion of Perpetua are mediated heavily by traditional Graeco-Roman culture; in particular, by traditional notions of the afterlife and of the ascent of the soul. This context for understanding the Passion of Perpetua aligns well with the available material evidence, and with the writings of Tertullian, with whose ideology the text of Perpetua is in an implicit polemical dialogue.Eliezer Gonzalez analyzes how the Passion of Perpetua provides us with early literary evidence of an environment in which the Graeco-Roman and Christian cults of the dead, including the cults of the martyrs and saints, appear to be very much aligned. He also shows that the text of the Passion of Perpetua and the writings of Tertullian provide insights into an early stage in the polemic between these two conceptualisations of the afterlife of the righteous.
Author : Jussi Rantala
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351970380
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book The Ludi Saeculares of Septimius Severus written by Jussi Rantala and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first monograph to examine in detail the Ludi Saeculares (Secular Games) of Septimius Severus and argues that the games represented a radical shift from Antonine imperial ideology. To garner popular support and to legitimise his power, Severus conducted an intensive propaganda campaign, but how did he use the ludi to strengthen his power, and what were the messages he conveyed through them? The central theme is ritual, and the idea of ritual as a process that builds collective identity. The games symbolised the new Severan political and social vision and they embodied the idea of Roman identity and the image of Roman society which the emperor wished to promote. The programme of the games was recorded in a stone inscription and this text is analysed in detail, translated into English and contextualised in the socio-political aims of Septimius Severus.
Author : Julie Langford
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421408473
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Maternal Megalomania written by Julie Langford and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She employs Julia Domna as a case study to explore the creation of ideology between the emperor and its subjects.
Author : Margherita Cassia
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031286510
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)
Download or read book The Roman Empress Ulpia Severina written by Margherita Cassia and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the twelve Augustae who lived during the fifty years of the so-called “military anarchy” (235-284 A.D.), Ulpia Severina, wife of the “Illyrian” emperor Aurelian (270-275 AD), is certainly one of the most enigmatic and less known. The book focuses on Ulpia Severina, who, even though never mentioned by name in literary sources, has been studied almost exclusively from the perspective of the numerous coins issued in her name and is the subject of many interesting honorific inscriptions that had not been thoroughly examined or adequately valued until this study. This exceptional situation, represented by the sole presence of Ulpia Severina on the throne of Rome, deserves more attention than it has received. The pages of the university history textbooks dedicated to the reconstruction of a fifty-year phase of Roman-imperial history must be, if not rewritten, at least integrated in order to give the deserved space to this empress and, therefore, to the so-called “interregnum,” which lasted at least two months, between the death of Aurelian and the advent of emperor Tacitus.
Author : Marília Futre Pinheiro
Publisher : Barkhuis
ISBN 13 : 9491431218
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (914 download)
Download or read book The Ancient Novel and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative: Fictional Intersections written by Marília Futre Pinheiro and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2013-01-06 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative collection explores the vital role played by fictional narratives in Christian and Jewish self-fashioning in the early Roman imperial period. Employing a diversity of approaches, including cultural studies, feminist, philological, and narratological, expert scholars from six countries offer twelve essays on Christian fictions or fictionalized texts and one essay on Aseneth. All the papers were originally presented at the Fourth International Conference on the Ancient Novel in Lisbon Portugal in 2008. The papers emphasize historical contextualization and comparative methodologies and will appeal to all those interested in early Christianity, the Ancient novel, Roman imperial history, feminist studies, and canonization processes.
Author : Petr Kitzler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110418673
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book From ‘Passio Perpetuae’ to ‘Acta Perpetuae’ written by Petr Kitzler and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While concentrated on the famous Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis, this book focuses on an area that has so far been somewhat marginalized or even overlooked by modern interpreters: the recontextualizing of the Passio Perpetuae in the subsequent reception of this text in the literature of the early Church. Since its composition in the early decades of the 3rd century, the Passio Perpetuae was enjoying an extraordinary authority and popularity. However, it contained a number of revolutionary and innovative features that were in conflict with existing social and theological conventions. This book analyses all relevant texts from the 3rd to 5th centuries in which Perpetua and her comrades are mentioned, and demonstrates the ways in which these texts strive to normalize the innovative aspects of the Passio Perpetuae. These efforts, visible as they are already on careful examination of the passages of the editor of the passio, continue from Tertullian to Augustine and his followers. The normalization of the narrative reaches its peak in the so-called Acta Perpetuae which represent a radical rewriting of the original and an attempt to replace it by a purified text, more compliant with the changed socio-theological hierarchies.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004510516
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book The Intellectual Climate of Cassius Dio written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the intellectual and political contexts that produced Cassius Dio's (c. 160–c. 230 CE) massive and indispensable synthesis of Roman history. Contributors examine the literary influences, cultural identity and political ideologies of this much read but enigmatic author.
Author : David S. Potter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134694776
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book The Roman Empire at Bay, AD 180-395 written by David S. Potter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman Empire at Bay is the only one volume history of the critical years 180-395 AD, which saw the transformation of the Roman Empire from a unitary state centred on Rome, into a new polity with two capitals and a new religion—Christianity. The book integrates social and intellectual history into the narrative, looking to explore the relationship between contingent events and deeper structure. It also covers an amazingly dramatic narrative from the civil wars after the death of Commodus through the conversion of Constantine to the arrival of the Goths in the Roman Empire, setting in motion the final collapse of the western empire. The new edition takes account of important new scholarship in questions of Roman identity, on economy and society as well as work on the age of Constantine, which has advanced significantly in the last decade, while recent archaeological and art historical work is more fully drawn into the narrative. At its core, the central question that drives The Roman Empire at Bay remains, what did it mean to be a Roman and how did that meaning change as the empire changed? Updated for a new generation of students, this book remains a crucial tool in the study of this period.
Author : Thomas J. Heffernan
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199777578
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Passio SS. Perpetuae Et Felicitatis Engl written by Thomas J. Heffernan and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-06-18 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most widely read and studied texts composed in Late Antiquity is the prison diary of Vibia Perpetua, a young woman of the elite classes who was martyred in March of the year 202 or 203 C.E. in Carthage, as part of a civic celebration honoring Caesar Geta. She was well-married and had recently become the mother of a baby son, but despite her advantages, she refused to recant her faith when she was arrested with other recent converts to Christianity. Imprisoned with her was her pregnant slave Felicity. Perpetua's steadfastness in her belief led to her martyrdom in the amphitheater. A description of the heroic deaths of both women, and the autobiography of one of the leaders of the Christian community, Saturus, is woven into Perpetua's diary by an anonymous editor, who tells us that, as they died, Perpetua, Felicity, and the other condemned Christians bid farewell with a kiss of peace.This unique and precious text survives in one Greek and in nine Latin manuscript versions. Thomas Heffernan's new study contains much that has never been done before, including a prosopography of all the individuals mentioned in the Passion, a new English translation and the first detailed historical commentary in English on the entire narrative of the Passion. It also includes a newly edited version of the Latin text based on all the extant manuscripts and - rarer still - the Greek text. He concludes the book with a complete codicological description of all of the known manuscripts and thorough scholarly indices of the text itself. Perpetua's prison diary is a revered text of early Christianity, and Heffernan's new translation and commentary brings unprecedented scholarly resources to the much-loved Passion.
Author : Timothy David Barnes
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161502262
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Early Christian Hagiography and Roman History written by Timothy David Barnes and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2010 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In their present form, the first five chapters are revised versions of lectures delivered in German at the University of Jena on 10-14 November 2008"--P. xi.
