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Author : Ronald Syme
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Emperors and Biography written by Ronald Syme and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides biographical information for Roman emperors of the third century.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004673091
Total Pages : 602 pages
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Author : Jonathan Theodore
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137569972
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book The Modern Cultural Myth of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire written by Jonathan Theodore and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-13 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the ‘decline and fall’ of Rome as perceived and imagined in aspects of British and American culture and thought from the late nineteenth through the early twenty-first centuries. It explores the ways in which writers, filmmakers and the media have conceptualized this process and the parallels they have drawn, deliberately or unconsciously, to their contemporary world. Jonathan Theodore argues that the decline and fall of Rome is no straightforward historical fact, but a ‘myth’ in terms coined by Claude Lévi-Strauss, meaning not a ‘falsehood’ but a complex social and ideological construct. Instead, it represents the fears of European and American thinkers as they confront the perceived instability and pitfalls of the civilization to which they belonged. The material gathered in this book illustrates the value of this idea as a spatiotemporal concept, rather than a historical event – a narrative with its own unique moral purpose.
Author : John S. McHugh
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526774011
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)
Download or read book The Reign of Emperor Antoninus Pius, AD 138–161 written by John S. McHugh and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2022-10-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reign of Antoninus Pius is widely seen as the apogee of the Roman Empire yet, due to gaps in the historical sources, his reign has been overlooked by modern historians. He is considered one of the five good emperors of the Antonine dynasty under whom the pax Romana enabled the empire to prosper, trade to flourish and culture to thrive. His reign is considered a Golden Age but this was partly an image created by imperial propaganda. There were serious conflicts in North Africa and Dacia, as well as a major revolt in Britain. On his death the empire stood on the cusp of the catastrophic invasions and rebellions that marked the reign of his successor Marcus Aurelius. Antoninus Pius became emperor through the hand of fate, being adopted by Hadrian only after the death of his intended heir, Lucius Aelius Caesar. His rule was a balancing act between securing his own safety, securing the succession of his adopted heir and denying opportunities for conspiracy and rebellion. ‘Equanimity’ was the last password he issued to his guards as he lay on his death bed. In the face of the threats and challenges he remained calm and composed, providing twenty-three years of stability; a calm before the storms that gathered both within and beyond Rome’s borders.
Author : Fred C. Jenkins
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004335382
Total Pages : 683 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Ammianus Marcellinus written by Fred C. Jenkins and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-11-14 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ammianus Marcellinus: An Annotated Bibliography, 1474 to the Present, Fred W. Jenkins surveys scholarship on Ammianus from the editio princeps to the present. Included are bibliographies, editions, translations, commentaries, concordances and indexes, Web sites, and secondary scholarship in many languages.
Author : Paul McKechnie
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047401387
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Thinking Like a Lawyer written by Paul McKechnie and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the law and life of Rome—in which contributors respond to John Crook's injunction to 'think like lawyers' by ranging as far as ancient Greece, ancient Persia and modern Denmark to expound their themes and draw comparisons. An opening section focuses on Civil Law, more or less as conventionally conceived, with chapters on the peculium, on municipal law at Irni in Roman Spain, on advisers of Roman provincial governors, and on violent crime. Roman perceptions of the physical and human worlds are the focus of a second section, and comparisons between Greek, Roman and modern ways of thinking about law and government come into the third section. In the final section, contributors argue the history of law and life from refractions of real and imagined Rome.
Author : Ronald Syme
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520929101
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Sallust written by Ronald Syme and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this classic book, Sir Ronald Syme became the first historian of the twentieth century to place Sallust—whom Tacitus called the most brilliant Roman historian—in his social, political, and literary context. Scholars had considered Sallust to be a mere political hack or pamphleteer, but Syme's text makes important connections between the politics of the Republic and the literary achievement of the author to show Sallust as a historian unbiased by partisanship. In a new foreword, Ronald Mellor delivers one of the most thorough biographical essays of Sir Ronald Syme in English. He both places the book in the context of Syme's other works and details the progression of Sallustian studies since and as a result of Syme's work.
Author : Barry Baldwin
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900467313X
Total Pages : 707 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
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Author : Kurt A. Raaflaub
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520914511
Total Pages : 519 pages
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Download or read book Between Republic and Empire written by Kurt A. Raaflaub and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing five major areas of Augustan scholarship—historiography, poetry, art, religion, and politics—the nineteen contributors to this volume bring us closer to a balanced, up-to-date account of Augustus and his principate. 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 1991. Representing five major areas of Augustan scholarship—historiography, poetry, art, religion, and politics—the nineteen contributors to this volume bring us closer to a balanced, up-to-date account of Augustus and his principate. This title is p
Author : Marguerite Boland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521113628
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)
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Total Pages : 368 pages
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Download or read book Rome in the Fourth Century A.D. written by Alden M. Rollins and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transitory nature of the fourth century Roman Empire makes it a suitable candidate for at least four traditional categories: ancient, medieval, Byzantine, and early Christian history. This bibliography, containing 1,408 annotated entries, offers a comprehensive listing of twentieth century English language works on this subject. The book, divided into 11 chapters, covers works on the Roman Empire from A.D. 284 to 395. Topics covered include works of a general nature, politics and government, military matters, the sciences, society and art, foreign affairs and barbarians, religion and philosophy, Christianity, and church and state.
Author : Bart D. Ehrman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199928037
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
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Author : Kegan A. Chandler
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532689942
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)
Download or read book Constantine and the Divine Mind written by Kegan A. Chandler and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constantine's conversion to Christianity marks one of the most significant turning points in the epic of Western civilization. It is also one of history's most controversial and hotly-debated episodes. Why did Constantine join a persecuted sect? When did he convert? And what kind of Christian did he ultimately become? Such questions have perennially challenged historians, but modern scholarship has opened a new door towards understanding the fourth century's most famous and mysterious convert. In Constantine and the Divine Mind, Chandler offers a new portrait of Constantine as a deeply religious man on a quest to restore what he believed was once the original religion of mankind: monotheism. By tracing this theological quest and important historical trends in Roman paganism, Chandler illuminates the process by which Constantine embraced Christianity, and how the reasons for that embrace continued to manifest in his religious policies. In this we discover not only Constantine's personal religious journey, but the reason why Christianity was first developed into a world power.
Author : American Historical Association
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1066 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The American Historical Association's Guide to Historical Literature written by American Historical Association and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains nearly 2,000 annotated citations (primarily English language works) divided into forth-eight sections ; citations refer chiefly to works published between 1961 and 1992.
Author : Victoria Pagán
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292739729
Total Pages : 199 pages
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Download or read book Conspiracy Theory in Latin Literature written by Victoria Pagán and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conspiracy theory as a theoretical framework has emerged only in the last twenty years; commentators are finding it a productive way to explain the actions and thoughts of individuals and societies. In this compelling exploration of Latin literature, Pagán uses conspiracy theory to illuminate the ways that elite Romans invoked conspiracy as they navigated the hierarchies, divisions, and inequalities in their society. By seeming to uncover conspiracy everywhere, Romans could find the need to crush slave revolts, punish rivals with death or exile, dismiss women, denigrate foreigners, or view their emperors with deep suspicion. Expanding on her earlier Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History, Pagán here interprets the works of poets, satirists, historians, and orators—Juvenal, Tacitus, Suetonius, Terence, and Cicero, among others—to reveal how each writer gave voice to fictional or real actors who were engaged in intrigue and motivated by a calculating worldview. Delving into multiple genres, Pagán offers a powerful critique of how conspiracy and conspiracy theory can take hold and thrive when rumor, fear, and secrecy become routine methods of interpreting (and often distorting) past and current events. In Roman society, where knowledge about others was often lacking and stereotypes dominated, conspiracy theory explained how the world worked. The persistence of conspiracy theory, from antiquity to the present day, attests to its potency as a mechanism for confronting the frailties of the human condition.
Author : Robert G. Sullivan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004365168
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Thomas Elyot: Critical Editions of Four Works on Counsel written by Robert G. Sullivan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-05-07 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides the first modern scholarly editions of four works on the rhetoric of counsel by Sir Thomas Elyot (1490-1546), humanist scholar and advisor to Henry VIII of England. The Doctrinal of Princes, a translation of Isocrates’ To Nicocles, and probably the earliest English book translated directly from Greek into English, consists of a collection of aphorisms, all advising moderation, addressed to monarchs. Pasquill the Playne, the first English pasquinade, is a comic dialogue on the ethical challenges involved in counseling a prince. Of That Knowledge Which Maketh a Wise Man is a direct imitation of a Platonic dialogue, in which Plato’s confrontation with the Sicilian tyrant Dionysius is given dramatic form. A third dialogue, The Defense of Good Women, is the first printed English book that argues for the moral and political equality of women to men. Included in the volume are a general introduction to Elyot’s life and political career, extensive critical introductions to each of the texts, full recordings of the variations between printed editions, and substantive notes.
