Book Description
Reinterprets Julius Caesar not as an autocrat seeking to overthrow the Roman Republic, but as an unusually successful political leader.
Author : Robert Morstein-Marx
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 703 pages
File Size : 44,40 MB
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1108837840
Reinterprets Julius Caesar not as an autocrat seeking to overthrow the Roman Republic, but as an unusually successful political leader.
Author : Dirk Booms
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,51 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Rome
ISBN : 9780714122854
Arguably the most formidable of powers the world has ever seen, the Roman Empire in its prime stretched from Spain to Iraq and from Germany to Egypt, encompassing all the territory in between. By AD 117, it had engulfed almost fifty countries we know today, marrying a fascinating range of cultures and traditions. This illustrated book explores the diverse peoples of the Roman Empire: how they viewed themselves and others as Romans and examining their enduring legacy today, from the languages we speak, to the legal systems we live by, the towns and cities we live in, and even to our table manners
Author : Mary T. Boatwright
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 35,68 MB
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521840627
In this highly-illustrated book, Mary T. Boatwright examines five of the peoples incorporated into the Roman world from the Republican through the Imperial periods: northerners, Greeks, Egyptians, Jews, and Christians. She explores over time the tension between assimilation and distinctiveness in the Roman world, as well as the changes effected in Rome by its multicultural nature. Underlining the fundamental importance of diversity in Rome's self-identity, the book explores Roman tolerance of difference and community as the Romans expanded and consolidated their power and incorporated other peoples into their empire. The Peoples of the Roman World provides an accessible account of Rome's social, cultural, religious, and political history, exploring the rich literary, documentary, and visual evidence for these peoples and Rome's reactions to them.
Author : T. P. Wiseman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 34,49 MB
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0191617016
In the Roman republic, only the People could pass laws, only the People could elect politicians to office, and the very word republica meant 'the People's business'. So why is it always assumed that the republic was an oligarchy? The main reason is that most of what we know about it we know from Cicero, a great man and a great writer, but also an active right-wing politician who took it for granted that what was good for a small minority of self-styled 'best people' (optimates) was good for the republic as a whole. T. P. Wiseman interprets the last century of the republic on the assumption that the People had a coherent political ideology of its own, and that the optimates, with their belief in justified murder, were responsible for the breakdown of the republic in civil war.
Author : Victor Duruy
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,99 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Rome
ISBN :
Author : Herwig Wolfram
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,13 MB
Release : 2005-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0520244907
An account of the Germanic peoples and their kingdom between the 3rd and 8th centuries, as they invaded, settled in and transformed the Roman empire.
Author : Don Nardo
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 40,73 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9781560066798
Explains how the discipline, courage, and preparation of the Roman soldier combined with the strategies and tactics of his commander and the organization of the military establishment resulted in the conquest of many lands for the Roman Empire.
Author : Walter Pohl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 26,86 MB
Release : 2018-07-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 311059756X
Roman identity is one of the most interesting cases of social identity because in the course of time, it could mean so many different things: for instance, Greek-speaking subjects of the Byzantine empire, inhabitants of the city of Rome, autonomous civic or regional groups, Latin speakers under ‘barbarian’ rule in the West or, increasingly, representatives of the Church of Rome. Eventually, the Christian dimension of Roman identity gained ground. The shifting concepts of Romanness represent a methodological challenge for studies of ethnicity because, depending on its uses, Roman identity may be regarded as ‘ethnic’ in a broad sense, but under most criteria, it is not. Romanness is indeed a test case how an established and prestigious social identity can acquire many different shades of meaning, which we would class as civic, political, imperial, ethnic, cultural, legal, religious, regional or as status groups. This book offers comprehensive overviews of the meaning of Romanness in most (former) Roman provinces, complemented by a number of comparative and thematic studies. A similarly wide-ranging overview has not been available so far.
Author : Victor Duruy
Publisher :
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 30,92 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Rome
ISBN :
Author : Victor Duruy
Publisher :
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 28,74 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Rome
ISBN :