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Author : Mason Hammond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Antonine Monarchy written by Mason Hammond and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Albino Garzetti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317698436
Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book From Tiberius to the Antonines (Routledge Revivals) written by Albino Garzetti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first two centuries of the Christian era were largely a period of consolidation for the Roman Empire. However, the history of the heyday of Roman imperium is far from dull, for Augustus’ successors ranged from capable administrators - Tiberius, Claudius and Hadrian - to near-madmen like Caligula and the amateur gladiator Commodus, who might have wrecked the system but for its inherent strength. Albino Garzetti’s classic From Tiberius to the Antonines, first published in 1960, presents a definitive account of this fascinating period, which combines a clear and readable narrative with a thorough discussion of the methodological problems and primary sources. Regarding difficult historical questions, it can be relied upon for careful and reasonable judgments based on a full mastery of an immense amount of material. Nearly three hundred pages of critical notes and a comprehensive bibliography complement the text, ensuring its continuing relevance for all students of Roman history.
Author : Michael Grant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317972104
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
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 254 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.
Author : John Middleton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317451589
Total Pages : 1123 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book World Monarchies and Dynasties written by John Middleton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 1123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, royal dynasties have dominated countries and empires around the world. Kings, queens, emperors, chiefs, pharaohs, czars - whatever title they ruled by, monarchs have shaped institutions, rituals, and cultures in every time period and every corner of the globe. The concept of monarchy originated in prehistoric times and evolved over centuries right up to the present. Efforts to overthrow monarchies or evade their rule - such as the American, French, Chinese, and Russian revolutions - are considered turning points in world history. Even today, many countries retain their monarchies, although in vastly reduced form with little political power. One cannot understand human history and government without understanding monarchs and monarchies. This fully-illustrated encyclopedia provides the first complete survey of all the major rulers and ruling families of the world, past and present. No other reference work approaches the topic with the same sense of magnitude or connection to historical context. Arranged in A-Z format for ease of access, World Monarchies and Dynasties includes information on major monarchs and dynasties from ancient time to the present. This set: includes overviews of reigns and successions, genealogical charts, and dynastic timelines; addresses concepts, problems, and theories of monarchy; provides background and information for further research; highlights important places, structures, symbols, events, and legends related to particular monarchs and dynasties; includes a master bibliography and multiple indexes.
Author : Adam M. Kemezis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316148084
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Greek Narratives of the Roman Empire under the Severans written by Adam M. Kemezis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The political instability of the Severan Period (AD 193–235) destroyed the High Imperial consensus about the Roman past and caused both rulers and subjects constantly to re-imagine and re-narrate both recent events and the larger shape of Greco-Roman history and cultural identity. This book examines the narratives put out by the new dynasty, and how the literary elite responded with divergent visions of their own. It focuses on four long Greek narrative texts from the period (by Cassius Dio, Philostratus and Herodian), each of which constructs its own version of the empire, each defined by different Greek and Roman elements and each differently affected by dynastic change, especially that from Antonine to Severan. Innovative theories of narrative are used to produce new readings of these works that bring political, literary and cultural perspectives together in a unified presentation of the Severan era as a distinctive historical moment.
Author : Kaius Tuori
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191092258
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Emperor of Law written by Kaius Tuori and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the days of the Roman Empire, the emperor was considered not only the ruler of the state, but also its supreme legal authority, fulfilling the multiple roles of supreme court, legislator, and administrator. The Emperor of Law explores how the emperor came to assume the mantle of a judge, beginning with Augustus, the first emperor, and spanning the years leading up to Caracalla and the Severan dynasty. While earlier studies have attempted to explain this change either through legislation or behaviour, this volume undertakes a novel analysis of the gradual expansion and elaboration of the emperor's adjudication and jurisdiction: by analysing the process through historical narratives, it argues that the emergence of imperial adjudication was a discourse that involved not only the emperors, but also petitioners who sought their rulings, lawyers who aided them, the senatorial elite, and the Roman historians and commentators who described it. Stories of emperors settling lawsuits and demonstrating their power through law, including those depicting 'mad' emperors engaging in violent repressions, played an important part in creating a shared conviction that the emperor was indeed the supreme judge alongside the empirical shift in the legal and political dynamic. Imperial adjudication reflected equally the growth of imperial power during the Principate and the centrality of the emperor in public life, and constitutional legitimation was thus created through the examples of previous actions - examples that historical authors did much to shape. Aimed at readers of classics, Roman law, and ancient history, The Emperor of Law offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the much debated problem of the advent of imperial supremacy in law that illuminates the importance of narrative studies to the field of legal history.
Author : Stefan Collini
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521626392
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (263 download)
Download or read book History, Religion, and Culture written by Stefan Collini and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two volumes containing essays by leading scholars in modern British intellectual history.
Author : Karl Christ
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520056343
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (563 download)
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.
Author : Herman Bengtson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520313550
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Introduction to Ancient History written by Herman Bengtson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970.
Author : Hermann Bengtson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520017238
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Introduction to Ancient History written by Hermann Bengtson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cornelius Tacitus
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872208117
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Agricola, Germany, and Dialogue on Orators written by Cornelius Tacitus and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reprint of the University of Oklahoma Press edition of 1991 Eminent scholar and translator, Herbert W. Benario, provides a faithful, readable translation of these works, introductory essays, chapter summaries, and notes. A bibliography, maps, and an index are included.
Author : Edward Luttwak
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801821585
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (215 download)
Download or read book The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire written by Edward Luttwak and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1976, a book which looks at the success of the Roman Empire from the 1st to the 3rd century A.D. and attributes this success to the imperial military strategy.
Author : James A. Francis
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271013046
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Subversive Virtue written by James A. Francis and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much attention has been devoted in recent years to Christian asceticism in Late Antiquity. But Christianity did not introduce asceticism to the ancient world. An underlying theme of this fascinating study of pagan asceticism is that much of the work on Christian &"holy men&" has ignored earlier manifestations of asceticism in Antiquity and the way Roman society confronted it. Accordingly, James Francis turns to the second century, the &"balmy late afternoon of Rome's classical empire,&" when the conflict between asceticism and authority reached a turning point. Francis begins with the emperor Marcus Aurelius (121&–180), who warned in his Meditations against &"display[ing] oneself as a man keen to impress others with a reputation for asceticism or beneficence.&" The Stoic Aurelius saw ascetic self-discipline as a virtue, but one to be exercised in moderation. Like other Roman aristocrats of his day, he perceived practitioners of ostentatious physical asceticism as a threat to prevailing norms and the established order. Prophecy, sorcery, miracle working, charismatic leadership, expressions of social discontent, and advocacy of alternative values regarding wealth, property, marriage, and sexuality were the issues provoking the controversy. If Aurelius defined the acceptable limits of ascetical practice, then the poet Lucian depicted the threat ascetics were perceived to pose to the social status quo through his biting satire. In an eye-opening analysis of Philostratus's Life of Apollonius of Tyana, Francis shows how Roman society reined in its deviant ascetics by &"rehabilitating&" them into pillars of traditional values. Celsus's True Doctrine shows how the views pagans held of their own ascetics influenced their negative view of Christianity. Finally, Francis points out striking parallels between the conflict over pagan asceticism and its Christian counterpart. By treating pagan asceticism seriously in its own right, Francis establishes the context necessary for understanding the great flowering of asceticism in Late Antiquity
Author : Everett Ferguson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136611584
Total Pages : 1253 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Early Christianity written by Everett Ferguson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 1253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997. What's new in the Second Edition: Some 250 new entries, twenty-five percent more than in the first edition, plus twenty-five new expert contributors. Bibliographies are greatly expanded and updated throughout; More focus on biblical books and philosophical schools, their influence on early Christianity and their use by patristic writers; More information about the Jewish and pagan environment of early Christianity; Greatly enlarged coverage of the eastern expansion of the faith throughout Asia, including persons and literature; More extensive treatment of saints, monasticism, worship practices, and modern scholars; Greater emphasis on social history and more theme articles; More illustrations, maps, and plans; Additional articles on geographical regions; Expanded chronological table; Also includes maps.
Author : Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Antoninus written by Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Harry Hinsley
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521339889
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (398 download)
Download or read book Sovereignty written by Francis Harry Hinsley and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1986-11-20 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Hinsley's book, first published in 1966, offers a general survey of the history of the theory of sovereignty, which seeks to illuminate the theory's character and function by stressing the changing social, political and economic frameworks within and between the political societies in which it has developed. It also spans and connects the different intellectual aspects of the concept of sovereignty: philosophical, legal, historical and political. For this new edition Professor Hinsley has wholly rewritten the last chapter to bring the history up to date, and to make some new concluding remarks.
Author : A. Arthur Schiller
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311080719X
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Roman Law written by A. Arthur Schiller and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
