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Roman Emperors in Context

Author : Brian Croke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000388301
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Roman Emperors in Context written by Brian Croke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-26 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman Emperors in Context: Theodosius to Justinian brings together ten articles by renowned historian Brian Croke. Written separately and over a period of fifteen years, the revised and updated chapters in this volume provide a coherent and substantial story of the change and development in imperial government at the eastern capital of Constantinople between the reigns of Theodosius I (379-95) and Justinian (527-65). Bookended by chapters on the city itself, this book is based on a conviction that the legal and administrative decisions of emperors have an impact on the whole of the political realm. The fifth century, which forms the core of this book, is shown to be essentially Roman in that the significance of aristocracy and dynasty still formed the basic framework for political advancement and the conduct/conflict of political power around a Roman imperial court from one generation to the next. Also highlighted is how power at court was mediated through military generals, including major regional commanders in the Balkans and the East, bishops and bureaucrats. Finally, the book demonstrates how the prolonged absence of male heirs during this period allowed the sisters, daughters, mothers and wives of Roman emperors to become more important and more central to imperial government. This book is essential reading for scholars and students of Roman and Byzantine history, as well as those interested in political and legal history. (CS1100)

The Roman Empire in Context

Author : Johann P. Arnason
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444390201
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book The Roman Empire in Context written by Johann P. Arnason and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-12-23 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a series of original essays by leading international scholars, The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives offers a comparative historical analysis of the Roman empire’s role and achievement and, more broadly, establishes Rome’s significance within comparative studies. Fills a gap in comparative historical analysis of the Roman empire’s role and achievement Features contributions from more than a dozen distinguished scholars from around the world Explores the relevance of important comparativist themes of state, empire, and civilization to ancient Rome

Evil Roman Emperors

Author : Phillip Barlag
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1633886913
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Evil Roman Emperors written by Phillip Barlag and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nero fiddled while Rome burned. As catchy as that aphorism is, it’s sadly untrue, even if it has a nice ring to it. The one thing Nero is well-known for is the one thing he actually didn’t do. But fear not, the truth of his life, his rule and what he did with unrestrained power, is plenty weird, salacious and horrifying. And he is not alone. Roman history, from the very foundation of the city, is replete with people and stories that shock our modern sensibilities. Evil Roman Emperors puts the worst of Rome’s rulers in one place and offers a review of their lives and a historical context for what made them into what they became. It concludes by ranking them, counting down to the worst ruler in Rome’s long history. Lucius Tarquinius Suburbus called peace conferences with warring states, only to slaughter foreign leaders; Commodus sold offices of the empire to the highest bidder; Caligula demanded to be worshipped as a god, and marched troops all the way to the ocean simply to collect seashells as “proof” of their conquest; even the Roman Senate itself was made up of oppressors, exploiters, and murderers of all stripes. Author Phillip Barlag profiles a host of evil Roman rulers across the history of their empire, along with the faceless governing bodies that condoned and even carried out heinous acts. Roman history, deviant or otherwise, is a subject of endless fascination. What’s never been done before is to look at the worst of the worst at the same time, comparing them side by side, and ranking them against one another. Until now.

Representing Rome's Emperors

Author : Caillan Davenport
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192695975
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Representing Rome's Emperors written by Caillan Davenport and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman emperors have long functioned—and continue to function—in the western imagination as paradigms of imperial leadership to be emulated or avoided. This innovative volume brings together an international team of experts to examine the literary and artistic representations of Roman emperors across more than two thousand years of history. In doing so, it breaks down traditional disciplinary boundaries that have separated the study of emperors in antiquity from their representation in later periods. The individual chapters offer close readings of different texts, media, and contexts, ranging from the Annals of Tacitus, Roman lamps, and triumphal statues to medieval legends, early modern philosophical tracts, twentieth-century novels, and museum exhibitions. Collectively they explore the creative impulses and political agendas that have shaped how we understand Roman emperors today.

Tiberius

Author : Captivating History
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781647480851
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Tiberius written by Captivating History and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-07 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compared with the preceding rulers, Julius Caesar and Augustus, the name does not ring out with the same fame and pomposity. Shakespeare wrote no plays about Tiberius; his name does not echo in the history books with the same awe-inspiring prominence.

Christianity and the Roman Empire

Author : Ralph Martin Novak
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0567018407
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Christianity and the Roman Empire written by Ralph Martin Novak and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of Christianity during the first four centuries of the common era was the pivotal development in Western history and profoundly influenced the later direction of all world history. Yet, for all that has been written on early Christian history, the primary sources for this history are widely scattered, difficult to find, and generally unknown to lay persons and to historians not specially trained in the field. In Christianity and the Roman Empire Ralph Novak interweaves these primary sources with a narrative text and constructs a single continuous account of these crucial centuries. The primary sources are selected to emphasize the manner in which the government and the people of the Roman Empire perceived Christians socially and politically; the ways in which these perceptions influenced the treatment of Christians within the Roman Empire; and the manner in which Christians established their political and religious dominance of the Roman Empire after Constantine the Great came to power in the early fourth century CE. Ralph Martin Novak holds a Masters Degree in Roman History from the University of Chicago. For: Undergraduates; seminarians; general audiences

Chronicle of the Roman Emperors

Author : Christopher Scarre
Publisher : Chronicles
ISBN 13 : 9780500289891
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book Chronicle of the Roman Emperors written by Christopher Scarre and published by Chronicles. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography.

The Roman Emperor Gaius "Caligula" and His Hellenistic Aspirations

Author : Geoff W. Adams
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1599424231
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book The Roman Emperor Gaius "Caligula" and His Hellenistic Aspirations written by Geoff W. Adams and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman Emperor Gaius 'Caligula' and his Hellenistic Aspirations examines one of the most notorious of Roman Emperors in light of his rather unconventional upbringing in the Eastern Provinces of the Roman Empire. The study has sought to use the ancient evidence in order to reassess the context in which the young Gaius Caligula was raised particularly in relation to the influence of his father, Germanicus.

Ten Caesars

Author : Barry Strauss
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451668848
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Ten Caesars written by Barry Strauss and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers “an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire…much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal)—a summation of three and a half centuries of the Roman Empire as seen through the lives of ten of the most important emperors, from Augustus to Constantine. In this essential and “enlightening” (The New York Times Book Review) work, Barry Strauss tells the story of the Roman Empire from rise to reinvention, from Augustus, who founded the empire, to Constantine, who made it Christian and moved the capital east to Constantinople. During these centuries Rome gained in splendor and territory, then lost both. By the fourth century, the time of Constantine, the Roman Empire had changed so dramatically in geography, ethnicity, religion, and culture that it would have been virtually unrecognizable to Augustus. Rome’s legacy remains today in so many ways, from language, law, and architecture to the seat of the Roman Catholic Church. Strauss examines this enduring heritage through the lives of the men who shaped it: Augustus, Tiberius, Nero, Vespasian, Trajan, Hadrian, Marcus Aurelius, Septimius Severus, Diocletian, and Constantine. Over the ages, they learned to maintain the family business—the government of an empire—by adapting when necessary and always persevering no matter the cost. Ten Caesars is a “captivating narrative that breathes new life into a host of transformative figures” (Publishers Weekly). This “superb summation of four centuries of Roman history, a masterpiece of compression, confirms Barry Strauss as the foremost academic classicist writing for the general reader today” (The Wall Street Journal).

Augustus and the Creation of the Roman Empire

Author : Ronald Mellor
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN 13 : 1319241662
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Augustus and the Creation of the Roman Empire written by Ronald Mellor and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2005-06-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his long reign of near-absolute power, Caesar Augustus established the Pax Romana, which gave Rome two hundred years of peace and social stability, and established an empire that would endure for five centuries and transform the history of Europe and the Mediterranean. Ronald Mellor offers a collection of primary sources featuring multiple viewpoints of the rise, achievements, and legacy of Augustus and his empire. His cogent introduction to the history of the Age of Augustus encourages students to examine such subjects as the military in war and peacetime, the social and cultural context of political change, the reform of administration, and the personality of the emperor himself. Document headnotes, a list of contemporary literary sources, a glossary of Greek and Latin terms, a chronology, questions for consideration, and a selected bibliography offer additional pedagogical support.

Experiencing Rome

Author : Janet Huskinson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134693214
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Experiencing Rome written by Janet Huskinson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique in their broad-based coverage the twelve essays in this book provide a fresh look at some central aspects of Roman culture and society.

How to Think Like a Roman Emperor

Author : Donald J. Robertson
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250196639
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book How to Think Like a Roman Emperor written by Donald J. Robertson and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a wonderful introduction to one of history's greatest figures: Marcus Aurelius. His life and this book are a clear guide for those facing adversity, seeking tranquility and pursuing excellence." —Ryan Holiday, bestselling author of The Obstacle is the Way and The Daily Stoic The life-changing principles of Stoicism taught through the story of its most famous proponent. Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was the last famous Stoic philosopher of the ancient world. The Meditations, his personal journal, survives to this day as one of the most loved self-help and spiritual classics of all time. In How to Think Like a Roman Emperor, cognitive psychotherapist Donald Robertson weaves the life and philosophy of Marcus Aurelius together seamlessly to provide a compelling modern-day guide to the Stoic wisdom followed by countless individuals throughout the centuries as a path to achieving greater fulfillment and emotional resilience. How to Think Like a Roman Emperor takes readers on a transformative journey along with Marcus, following his progress from a young noble at the court of Hadrian—taken under the wing of some of the finest philosophers of his day—through to his reign as emperor of Rome at the height of its power. Robertson shows how Marcus used philosophical doctrines and therapeutic practices to build emotional resilience and endure tremendous adversity, and guides readers through applying the same methods to their own lives. Combining remarkable stories from Marcus’s life with insights from modern psychology and the enduring wisdom of his philosophy, How to Think Like a Roman Emperor puts a human face on Stoicism and offers a timeless and essential guide to handling the ethical and psychological challenges we face today.

Imperial Rome AD 284 to 363

Author : Jill Harries
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748653953
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Imperial Rome AD 284 to 363 written by Jill Harries and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the reinvention of the Roman Empire during the eighty years between the accession of Diocletian and the death of Julian.

Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire

Author : Beth Severy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134391838
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire written by Beth Severy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-02-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively and detailed study, Beth Severy examines the relationship between the emergence of the Roman Empire and the status and role of this family in Roman society. The family is placed within the social and historical context of the transition from republic to empire, from Augustus' rise to sole power into the early reign of his successor Tiberius. Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire is an outstanding example of how, if we examine "private" issues such as those of family and gender, we gain a greater understanding of "public" concerns such as politics, religion and history. Discussing evidence from sculpture to cults and from monuments to military history, the book pursues the changing lines between public and private, family and state that gave shape to the Roman imperial system.

The Emperor and Rome

Author : Björn C. Ewald
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521519535
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book The Emperor and Rome written by Björn C. Ewald and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-02 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores ancient Rome under the impact of monarchy and as one of the structures which shaped the monarchy itself.

Coining Images of Power

Author : Erika Manders
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900418970X
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Coining Images of Power written by Erika Manders and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a quantitative and qualitative analysis of 8227 coin types, this book describes and interprets the diachronic development of the representation of Roman emperors on imperial coins issued between 193 and 284.

Roman Portraits in Context

Author : Jane Fejfer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110209993
Total Pages : 605 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Roman Portraits in Context written by Jane Fejfer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009-03-13 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highest honour a Roman citizen could hope for was a portrait statue in the forum of his city. While the emperor and high senatorial officials were routinely awarded statues, strong competition existed among local benefactors to obtain this honour, which proclaimed and perpetuated the memory of the patron and his family for generations. There were many ways to earn a portrait statue but such local figures often had to wait until they had passed away before the public finally fulfilled their expectations. It is argued in this book that our understanding and contemplation of a Roman portrait statue is greatly enriched, when we consider its wider historical context, its original setting, the circumstances of its production and style, and its base which, in many cases, bore a text that contributed to the rhetorical power of the image.