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Unwritten Rome

Author : T. P. Wiseman
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1802079327
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Unwritten Rome written by T. P. Wiseman and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Unwritten Rome, a new book by the author of Myths of Rome, T.P. Wiseman presents us with an imaginative and appealing picture of the early society of pre-literary Rome—as a free and uninhibited world in which the arts and popular entertainments flourished. This original angle allows the voice of the Roman people to be retrieved empathetically from contemporary artefacts and figured monuments, and from selected passages of later literature.How do you understand a society that didn’t write down its own history? That is the problem with early Rome, from the Bronze Age down to the conquest of Italy around 300 BC. The texts we have to use were all written centuries later, and their view of early Rome is impossibly anachronistic. But some possibly authentic evidence may survive, if we can only tease it out – like the old story of a Roman king acting as a magician, or the traditional custom that may originate in the practice of ritual prostitution. This book consists of eighteen attempts to find such material and make sense of it.

Unspoken Rome

Author : Tom Geue
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108843042
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Unspoken Rome written by Tom Geue and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcases innovative approaches to Latin literature by reading textual absence as a generative force for literary interpretation and reception. Includes chapters by a wide range of scholars, covering some of the main authors of the Latin literary tradition, often in dialogue with modern literature and philosophy.

Unwritten Rome

Author : Timothy Peter Wiseman
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Unwritten Rome written by Timothy Peter Wiseman and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Unwritten Rome, a new book by the author of Myths of Rome, T.P. Wiseman presents us with an imaginative and appealing picture of the early society of pre-literary Rome-as a free and uninhibited world in which the arts and popular entertainments flourished. This original angle allows the voice of the Roman people to be retrieved empathetically from contemporary artefacts and figured monuments, and from selected passages of later literature.How do you understand a society that didn't write down its own history? That is the problem with early Rome, from the Bronze Age down to the conquest of Italy around 300 BC. The texts we have to use were all written centuries later, and their view of early Rome is impossibly anachronistic. But some possibly authentic evidence may survive, if we can only tease it out - like the old story of a Roman king acting as a magician, or the traditional custom that may originate in the practice of ritual prostitution. This book consists of eighteen attempts to find such ma

Illiterate Geography in Classical Athens and Rome

Author : Daniela Dueck
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000225046
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Illiterate Geography in Classical Athens and Rome written by Daniela Dueck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is devoted to the channels through which geographic knowledge circulated in classical societies outside of textual transmission. It explores understanding of geography among the non-elites, as opposed to scholarly and scientific geography solely in written form which was the province of a very small number of learned people. It deals with non-literary knowledge of geography, geography not derived from texts, as it was available to people, educated or not, who did not read geographic works. This main issue is composed of two central questions: how, if at all, was geographic data available outside of textual transmission and in contexts in which there was no need to write or read? And what could the public know of geography? In general, three groups of sources are relevant to this quest: oral communications preserved in writing; public non-textual performances; and visual artefacts and monuments. All of these are examined as potential sources for the aural and visual geographic knowledge of Greco-Roman publics. This volume will be of interest to anyone working on geography in the ancient world and to those studying non-elite culture.

Ancient Rome as a Museum

Author : Steven Rutledge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199573239
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Rome as a Museum written by Steven Rutledge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Rome as a Museum considers how cultural objects from the Roman Empire came to reflect, construct, and challenge Roman perceptions of power and identity. Rutledge argues that Roman cultural values are indicated in part by what sort of materials Romans deemed worthy of display and how they chose to display, view, and preserve them.

Building Mid-Republican Rome

Author : Seth Bernard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190878797
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Building Mid-Republican Rome written by Seth Bernard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building Mid-Republican Rome offers a holistic treatment of the development of the Mid-Republican city from 396 to 168 BCE. As Romans established imperial control over Italy and beyond, the city itself radically transformed from an ambitious central Italian settlement into the capital of the Mediterranean world. Seth Bernard describes this transformation in terms of both new urban architecture, much of it unprecedented in form and extent, and new socioeconomic structures, including slavery, coinage, and market-exchange. These physical and historical developments were closely linked: building the Republican city was expensive, and meeting such costs had significant implications for urban society. Building Mid-Republican Rome brings both architectural and socioeconomic developments into a single account of urban change. Bernard, a specialist in the period's history and archaeology, assembles a wide array of evidence, from literary sources to coins, epigraphy, and especially archaeological remains, revealing the period's importance for the decline of the Roman state's reliance on obligation and dependency and the rise of slavery and an urban labor market. This narrative is told through an investigation of the evolving institutional frameworks shaping the organization of public construction. A quantitative model of the costs of the Republican city walls reconstructs their economic impact. A new account of building technology in the period allows for a better understanding of the social and demographic profile of the city's builders. Building Mid-Republican Rome thus provides an innovative synthesis of a major Western city's spatial and historical aspects, shedding much-needed light on a seminal period in Rome's development.

A Companion to the City of Rome

Author : Claire Holleran
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118300696
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (183 download)

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Book Synopsis A Companion to the City of Rome by : Claire Holleran

Download or read book A Companion to the City of Rome written by Claire Holleran and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the City of Rome presents a series of original essays from top experts that offer an authoritative and up-to-date overview of current research on the development of the city of Rome from its origins until circa AD 600. Offers a unique interdisciplinary, closely focused thematic approach and wide chronological scope making it an indispensible reference work on ancient Rome Includes several new developments on areas of research that are available in English for the first time Newly commissioned essays written by experts in a variety of related fields Original and up-to-date readings pertaining to the city of Rome on a wide variety of topics including Rome’s urban landscape, population, economy, civic life, and key events

Dionysius and the City of Rome

Author : Beatrice Poletti
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1793655073
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Dionysius and the City of Rome written by Beatrice Poletti and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2023 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates Dionysius of Halicarnassus' description of Rome's 'founders' and situates Dionysius' historical work in the cultural and political contexts of Augustan Rome. Beatrice Poletti examines Dionysius' methods and engagement with his sources to illustrate the significance of his work in his contemporary intellectual milieu.

Omnium Annalium Monumenta: Historical Writing and Historical Evidence in Republican Rome

Author : Kaj Sandberg
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004355553
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Omnium Annalium Monumenta: Historical Writing and Historical Evidence in Republican Rome written by Kaj Sandberg and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume brings a variety of approaches to the problem of how the Romans conceived of their history, what were the mechanisms for their preservation of the past, and how did the Romans come to write about their past. Building on important recent work in historiography, and the recent memory turn, the authors consider the practicalities of transmission, literary and generic influences, and the role of the city of Rome in preserving and transmitting memories of the past. The result is a major contribution to our understanding of the role history played in Roman life, and the kinds of evidence which could be deployed in constructing Roman history.

Virgil's Book of Bucolics, the Ten Eclogues Translated into English Verse

Author : John Van Sickle
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801899613
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Virgil's Book of Bucolics, the Ten Eclogues Translated into English Verse written by John Van Sickle and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This highly original work builds on two neglected facts about Virgil's Book of Bucolics: its popularity on the bawdy Roman stage and its impact as sequence poetry on readers and writers from the Classical world through the present day. The Bucolics profoundly influenced a wide range of canonical literary figures, from the contemporaneous Horace, Propertius, and Ovid through such successors as Calpurnius, Sannazaro, Marot, Spenser, Milton, Wordsworth, Robert Frost, and W. H. Auden. As performed, the work scored early success. John Van Sickle's artfully rendered translation, its stage cues, and the explanatory notes treat for the first time the book's ten short pieces as a thematic web. He pays close heed to themes that return, vary throughout the work, and develop as leitmotifs, inviting readers to trace the threads and ultimately to experience the last eclogue as a grand finale. Introductory notes identify cues for casting, dramatic gesture, and voice, pointing to topics that stirred the Roman crowd and satisfied powerful patrons. Back notes offer clues to the ambitious literary program implicit in the voices, plots, and themes. Taken as a whole, this volume shows how the Bucolics inaugurated Virgil's lifelong campaign to colonize for Rome the prestigious Greek genres of epic and tragedy—winning contemporary acclaim and laying the groundwork for his poetic legend. Reframing pastoral tradition in Europe and America, Van Sickle's rendering of the Book of Bucolics is ideal for students of literature and their teachers, for scholars of classical literature and the pastoral genre, and for poetological and cognitive theorists.

The Roman Republic

Author : Matthew Dillon
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1473889693
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book The Roman Republic written by Matthew Dillon and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays exploring the role religion played in ancient Roman warfare, including destroying enemies’ gods, wartime ceremonies, and live burials. Religion was integral to the conduct of war in the ancient world and the Romans were certainly no exception. No campaign was undertaken, no battle risked, without first making sacrifice to propitiate the appropriate gods (such as Mars, god of War) or consulting oracles and omens to divine their plans. Yet the link between war and religion is an area that has been regularly overlooked by modern scholars examining the conflicts of these times. This volume addresses that omission by drawing together the work of experts from across the globe. The chapters have been carefully structured by the editors so that this wide array of scholarship combines to give a coherent, comprehensive study of the role of religion in the wars of the Roman Republic. Aspects considered in depth will include: declarations of war; evocation and taking gods away from enemies; dedications and ceremonies; the cult of the legionary eagle; the role of women in Republican warfare; omens and divination; live burials of people in times of military crisis; and the rituals of the Roman triumph. PraiseReligion & Classical Warfare: The Roman Republic “The authors take a novel approach in looking at military history of the Roman Republic in terms of the relationship between warriors and religion. The ancient world was driven to a high degree by religious belief, even to the point of commanders relying on seers to advise them on the eve of battle.—Very Highly Recommended.” —Firetrench “A work of meticulous and detailed scholarship.” —Midwest Book Review

A Companion to Roman Italy

Author : Alison E. Cooley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444339265
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Roman Italy written by Alison E. Cooley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Roman Italy investigates the impact of Rome in all its forms—political, cultural, social, and economic—upon Italy’s various regions, as well as the extent to which unification occurred as Rome became the capital of Italy. The collection presents new archaeological data relating to the sites of Roman Italy Contributions discuss new theories of how to understand cultural change in the Italian peninsula Combines detailed case-studies of particular sites with wider-ranging thematic chapters Leading contributors not only make accessible the most recent work on Roman Italy, but also offer fresh insight on long standing debates

The Oxford Handbook of Pre-Roman Italy (1000--49 BCE)

Author : Marco Maiuro
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199987890
Total Pages : 881 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Pre-Roman Italy (1000--49 BCE) written by Marco Maiuro and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Pre-Roman Italy provides a comprehensive account of the many peoples who lived on the Italian peninsula during the last millennium BCE. Written by more than fifty authors, the book describes the diversity of these indigenous cultures, their languages, interactions, and reciprocal influences. It gives emphasis to Greek colonization, the rise of aristocracies, technological innovations, and the spread of literacy, which provided the urban texture that shaped the history of the Italian peninsula.

History of the Roman People

Author : Allen M. Ward
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315511193
Total Pages : 1053 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book History of the Roman People written by Allen M. Ward and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 1053 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of the Roman People provides a comprehensive analytical survey of Roman history from its prehistoric roots in Italy and the wider Mediterranean world to the dissolution of the Roman Empire in Late Antiquity ca. A.D. 600. Clearly organized and highly readable, the text's narrative of major political and military events provides a chronological and conceptual framework for chapters on social, economic, and cultural developments of the periods covered. Major topics are treated separately so that students can easily grasp key concepts and ideas.

The Roman Retail Revolution

Author : Steven J. R. Ellis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198769938
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Roman Retail Revolution written by Steven J. R. Ellis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tabernae were ubiquitous in all Roman cities, lining the busiest streets and dominating their most crowded intersections. This volume focuses on food and drink outlets in particular, combining analysis of both archaeological material and textual sources to offer a thorough investigation into the social and economic worlds of the Roman shop.

The Roman Republic and the Hellenistic Mediterranean

Author : Joel Allen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118959361
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book The Roman Republic and the Hellenistic Mediterranean written by Joel Allen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history of the Roman Republic within the wider Mediterranean world, focusing on 330 to 30 BCE Broad in scope, this book uniquely considers the history of the Roman Republic in tandem with the rich histories of the Hellenistic kingdoms and city-states that endured after the death of Alexander the Great. It provides students with a full picture of life in the ancient Mediterranean world and its multitude of interconnections—not only between Rome and the Greek East, but also among other major players, such as Carthage, Judaea, and the Celts. Taking a mostly chronological approach, it incorporates cultural change alongside political developments so that readers get a well-balanced introduction to the era. The Roman Republic and the Hellenistic Mediterranean: From Alexander to Caesar offers great insight into a momentous era with chapters on Alexanders in Asia and Italy; Mediterranean Cosmopolitanism; The Path of Pyrrhus; The Three Corners of Sicily; The Expanding Roman Horizon; Hercules and the Muses; The Corinth-Carthage Coincidence; The Movements of the Gracchi; The New Men of Rome and Africa; The Conspiracies of Cicero and Catiline; The World According to Pompey; Roman Alexanders; and more. It also looks at the phenomenon of excessive violence, particularly in the cases of Marius, Sulla, and Mithridates. The final chapter covers the demise of Cleopatra and examines how the seeds planted by Octavian, Octavia, and Antony sprouted into full Hellenistic trappings of power for the centuries that followed. Situates the development of Rome, after the death of Alexander the Great, in the context of significant contemporaneous regimes in Asia Minor, the Levant, and Egypt Provides students with insight into how various societies respond to contact and how that contact can shape and create larger communities Highlights the interconnectedness of Mediterranean cultures Strikes a balance between political, geopolitical, and cultural inquiries Considers how modes of international diplomacy affect civilizations Includes helpful pedagogical features, such as sources in translation, illustrations, and further readings Roman Republic and the Hellenistic Mediterranean is an excellent book for undergraduate courses on the Roman Republic, the Hellenistic World, and the ancient Mediterranean.

Libertas and Res Publica in the Roman Republic

Author : Catalina Balmaceda
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004441697
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Libertas and Res Publica in the Roman Republic written by Catalina Balmaceda and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Libertas and Res Publica examines two key concepts of Western political thinking: freedom and republic. Contributors address important new questions on the principles of, and essential connection between res publica and libertas in Roman thought and Republican history.