Author : Henry Charles Boren
Publisher : D. C. Heath and Company
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 35,18 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Education
ISBN :
Ideal for a one-semester course in Roman civilization or history, Roman Society offers a broad synthesis of the social, economic, and cultural history of this civilization. Topics such as social class, religion, the roles of women and slaves, and inflation are all covered, and maps, photographs, and a chronological chart complement the narrative.
Author : Gillian Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 12,8 MB
Release : 2004-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521633864
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Author : Peter Stewart
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Ancient Cult
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 26,6 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 0199240949
Statues are among the most familiar remnants of classical art. Yet their prominence in ancient society is often ignored. In the Roman world statues were ubiquitous. Whether they were displayed as public honours or memorials, collected as works of art, dedicated to deities, venerated as gods,or violated as symbols of a defeated political regime, they were recognized individually and collectively as objects of enormous significance.By analysing ancient texts and images, Statues in Roman Society unravels the web of associations which surrounded Roman statues. Addressing all categories of statuary together for the first time, it illuminates them in ancient terms, explaining expectations of what statues were or ought to be anddescribing the Romans' uneasy relationship with 'the other population' in their midst.
Author : Dylan Kelby Rogers
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 39,59 MB
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9004368973
Water played an important part of ancient Roman life, from providing necessary drinking water, supplying bath complexes, to flowing in large-scale public fountains. The Roman culture of water was seen throughout the Roman Empire, although it was certainly not monolithic and it could come in a variety of scales and forms, based on climatic and social conditions of different areas. This article seeks to define ‘water culture’ in Roman society by examining literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence, while understanding modern trends in scholarship related to the study of Roman water. The culture of water can be demonstrated through expressions of power, aesthetics, and spectacle. Further there was a shared experience of water in the empire that could be expressed through religion, landscape, and water’s role in cultures of consumption and pleasure.
Author : Richard Duncan-Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 34,27 MB
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107149797
Explores the impact of social standing on the careers of senators and knights in the Roman Empire.
Author : Tim G. Parkin
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 11,35 MB
Release : 2003-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801871283
"Noting that privileges granted to the aged generally took the form of exemptions from duties rather than positive benefits, Tim Parkin argues that the elderly were granted no privileged status or guaranteed social role. At the same time, they were permitted - and expected - to continue to participate actively in society for as long as they were able."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : John E. Stambaugh
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 18,27 MB
Release : 1988-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801836923
A synthesis of recent work in archaeology and social history, drawing on physical, literary, and documentary sources.
Author : Géza Alföldy
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,53 MB
Release : 1989-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801837012
This book treats such topics as the structure of archaic Roman society; social changes from the beginning of Roman expansion to the Second Punic War; slave uprisings and other conflicts in the society of the Late Republic; the social system of the early Empire; the crisis of the Roman Empire; and late Roman society to the fall of the Empire.
Author : Keith Bradley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,20 MB
Release : 1994-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 131613914X
This book, first published in 1994, is concerned with discovering what it was like to be a slave in the classical Roman world, and with revealing the impact the institution of slavery made on Roman society at large. It shows how and in what sense Rome was a slave society through much of its history, considers how the Romans procured their slaves, discusses the work roles slaves fulfilled and the material conditions under which they spent their lives, investigates how slaves responded to and resisted slavery, and reveals how slavery, as an institution, became more and more oppressive over time under the impact of philosophical and religious teaching. The book stresses the harsh realities of life in slavery and the way in which slavery was an integral part of Roman civilisation.
Author : Peter Garnsey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,11 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 0520285980
During the Principate (roughly 27 BCE to 235 CE), when the empire reached its maximum extent, Roman society and culture were radically transformed. But how was the vast territory of the empire controlled? Did the demands of central government stimulate economic growth or endanger survival? What forces of cohesion operated to balance the social and economic inequalities and high mortality rates? How did the official religion react in the face of the diffusion of alien cults and the emergence of Christianity? These are some of the many questions posed here, in the new, expanded edition of Garnsey and Saller's pathbreaking account of the economy, society, and culture of the Roman Empire. This second edition includes a new introduction that explores the consequences for government and the governing classes of the replacement of the Republic by the rule of emperors. Addenda to the original chapters offer up-to-date discussions of issues and point to new evidence and approaches that have enlivened the study of Roman history in recent decades. A completely new chapter assesses how far Rome’s subjects resisted her hegemony. The bibliography has also been thoroughly updated, and a new color plate section has been added.
