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British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd Limes XVIII - Proceedings of the XVIIIth International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies held in Amman, Jordan (September 2000), Volume 1
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British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd Papers in Italian Archaeology VI: Communities and Settlements from the Neolithic to the Early Medieval Period, Volume I
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Writing Ancient History: An Introduction to Classical Historiography
Book Synopsis'History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon', said Napoleon. Yet the actual writing of history, especially ancient history, is a practice that often prompts more discord than assent. In his new textbook, Luke Pitcher aims to overcome the hostility which exists between two rival camps in their study of classical historiography. The first camp looks at the classical historians with an eye to what data they can provide about the ancient world. The second camp examines the ancient writers as literary texts in their own right, employing the tools of literary criticism and engaging with such matters as narrative artistry.Attempting to fuse these two - mutually suspicious - approaches, Luke Pitcher's attractive introduction offers undergraduate students of classics the first comprehensive introduction to historiography in antiquity on the market. It unites the nitty-gritty of the historian's trade (the finding and managing of data) to an awareness of the importance of style, form, allusion and composition. The book also seeks to do justice to individual classical historians, and discusses such important figures as Livy, Tacitus, Herodotus, Cicero, Plutarch and Lucian. A comprehensive bibliography and glossary are included. "Writing Ancient History" at last does full justice to the mechanics of history-writing in the ancient world.Trade Review'This is a very good book indeed; general readers, students, and specialists alike will read it with profit and delight. Luke Pitcher ranges over ancient historical writers, both Greek and Roman, from Herodotus to Ammianus, with an impressive grasp of his material, and he has a gift for finding the telling example and making subtle and insightful points with lucidity and punch. He also has a wonderful eye for the modern parallel, and one is as likely to find here illumination drawn from a Patrick O'Brian novel or an episode of Doctor Who as from an extract from Xenophon or Velleius. Pitcher is unusually sensitive to the narrative strategies of the ancient historical writers, and also of all the health-warnings that the modern student needs to bear in mind when reading their works. Few writers about ancient historiography are so learned, and even fewer carry their learning so lightly: this is a book that anyone interested in ancient history just has to read - and they will thoroughly enjoy it.' - Christopher Pelling, Regius Professor of Greek, University of Oxford; 'Luke Pitcher has written an engaging, witty, and accessible study of the complicated relationship between theory and practice in the ancient historians, bringing to the task an impressive expertise in texts that range from archaic Greece to late antiquity. He resists simple contrasts between ancient and modern, presenting the reader instead with finely drawn, convincingly argued analyses of the spectrum of practices employed by ancient historiographers in their treatment of sources, self-presentation, and narrative modes of (re)presenting their pasts. Bearing in mind always that the modern student of the Greco-Roman world is also, in some way, 'writing ancient history', Pitcher brings us much closer to the methodologies and reception of these texts through which so much of our understanding of the ancient world derives.' - Christina S Kraus, Professor of Classics, Yale UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Writing About History in the Ancient World The Natures of History Using Sources Using Sources - II Writing Ancient History The Ends of History - I The Ends of History - II Texts and Translations: The Transmission of Ancient History Conclusion Suggestions for Further Reading Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Cicero: Politics and Persuasion in Ancient Rome
Book SynopsisCombining the latest scholarship with a highly readable style, Kathryn Tempest looks at Cicero the politician and orator, and the private man. On the back of his natural talent for oratory, Cicero set out on the path to a glorious reputation - his earliest speeches brought the name of Cicero out of the shadows and hurled him into the spotlight. Cicero was the first 'new man' in thirty years to reach the consulship; the fact that he managed to do so without bribery or violence makes his success even more remarkable. His year of office witnessed events of such a scale that he was granted the extraordinary honour of the title 'pater patriae' - he was the father of his fatherland. Following the Civil War, and with renewed hopes for the restoration of the Roman Republic, Cicero launched a fierce attack on Mark Antony by delivering a series of speeches that cannot be matched for their vigour. It was these speeches that would be the cause of Cicero's death, and his death was to be as dramatic as his life. Kathryn Tempest's life of Cicero and his times is as engaging as it is informative.Trade Review‘The picture of the cut and thrust of Roman politics is as beguiling as the man, and Tempest does an admirable job in bringing the orator's orator to life.' -- Good Book GuideAuthor Kathryn Tempest took part in a live one-hour special on Cicero, on the Irish radio 'Newstalk' http://www.newstalk.ie/2011/programmes/all-programmes/talking-history/cicero-sunday-october-2nd/By the end of the book, readers will appreciate the complexity not only of Cicero's character, but also of the extraordinary shift from republic to empire. Recommended. -- CHOICEA very useful guide to the frequently convoluted and often murderous politics of the late Republic. … This is a good read for both those familiar with the period or for those seeking an introduction to Roman political life in final era of the Republic. -- A. A. Nofi * StrategyPage *Table of ContentsPrologue: A Master of Words and a Patriot; 1. The Senate and the People of Rome; 2. The Making of the Man; 3. Climbing the Ladder of Offices; 4. Cicero on the Attack; 5. The New Man at Rome; 6. Cicero's Bid for the Consulship; 7. A Consulship and a Conspiracy; 8. High Hopes and Shattered Dreams; 9. Enemies, Exile and Return; 10. Cicero and the Triumvirs; 11. Clodius, Cicero and Milo; 12. Away from Rome: Cilicia; 13. Away from Rome Again: Civil War; 14. Cicero and Caesar; 15. The Tyranny of Antony; 16. The Last Fight for Liberty; Epilogue: The Head and the Hands of Cicero.
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Evolution Publishing & Manufacturing The Life of Saint Simeon Stylites
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Evolution Publishing & Manufacturing The Life of the Blessed Emperor Constantine: From Ad 306 to Ad 337
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Cazimi Press Mathesis
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Evolution Publishing & Manufacturing The Fragmentary History of Priscus: Attila, the Huns and the Roman Empire, Ad 430-476
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Rogue Scholar Press The History of the Roman Republic
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform The Roman Catacombs: The History and Legacy of Ancient Rome's Most Famous Burial Grounds
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform The Roman Catacombs: The History and Legacy of Ancient Rome's Most Famous Burial Grounds
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Independently Published Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform The Roman Siege of Jerusalem in 70 CE: The History and Legacy of Rome's Destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Ancient Cities: The History of Pompeii
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Antiqua Sapientia Natural History - An Illustrated Selection
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Antiqua Sapientia Historia Natural - Una edición condensada
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Hachette Livre - BNF Oeuvres Complètes de Flavius Josèphe
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Alicia Editions Metamorphoses: New Edition in Large Print
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Eyes & Ears Editions The Deadly Caesar: A Novel of the Late Roman Empire
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De Gruyter Infrastruktur und Herrschaftsorganisation im
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De Gruyter The Histories
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De Gruyter Die Welt der Römer
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Hansebooks Darstellungen aus der Sittengeschichte Roms: in
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Books on Demand Cornelii Taciti Annalium: Liber XV
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Tredition Classics Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)
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Brill Roman Imperialism
Book SynopsisRome engaged in military and diplomatic expansionistic state behavior, which we now describe as ‘imperialism,’ since well before the appearance of ancient sources describing this activity. Over the course of at least 800 years, the Romans established and maintained a Mediterranean-wide empire from Spain to Syria (and sometimes farther east) and from the North Sea to North Africa. How and why they did this is a perennial source of scholarly controversy. Earlier debates over whether Rome was an aggressive or defensive imperial state have progressed to theoretically-informed discussions of the extent to which system-level or discursive pressures shaped the Roman Empire. Roman imperialism studies now encompass such ancillary subfields as Roman frontier studies and Romanization.Trade Review''In conclusione, il più cospicuo significato del lavoro di Burton consiste nell’aver tentato – a mio avviso con successo – di offrire un bilancio equilibrato degli ultimi quarant’anni di ricerca sull’imperialismo romano e di aver condotto il dibattito storiografico sull’argomento fuori dai consolidati e ormai superati binari che lo avevano fino ad ora caratterizzato.'' Michele Bellomo, Latomus vol. 79.3 (2020)Table of ContentsRoman Imperialism Paul J. Burton Abstract Keywords 1 Introduction 2 Imperialism 3 Roman Imperialism 4 The Diversification of the Field 5 Conclusions References
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Brill Aedificiorum figurae: Untersuchungen zu den Architekturdarstellungen des frühen zweiten Stils
Book SynopsisGegenstand dieses Buches is die illusionistische Architekturmalerei des zweiten Stils in ihrer ersten Phase (ca. 100-50/40 v.Chr.). Es Befäßt sich einerseits mit formalen und typologischen Aspekten, zum anderen mit Fragen nach Funktion und Bedeutung. Eine ausführliche philologische Analyse von Vitruvs Äusserungen zur spätrepublikanischen Wandmalerei (De Architectura VII 5.1-3) geht der Behandlung des archäologischen Materials voran.
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Brill De Agricultura: In Memoriam Pieter Willem de Neeve
Book SynopsisWith contributions by J.N. Bremmer, J. Carlsen, D.P. Kehoe, L. De ligt, E. Lo Cascio, F.J.A.M. Meijer, H.W. Pleket, D. Rathbone, P. Rosafio, H. Sancisi-Weerdenburg, H.W. Singor, W. Scheidel, R.J. v.d. Spek, H.C. Teitler, H.S. Versnel, H.T. Wallinga, D. Yntema.
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Brill The Bronze Liver of Piacenza: Analysis of a Polytheistic Structure
Book SynopsisThis book deals with the Iecur Placentinum, the bronze model of a sheep’s liver, bearing 42 Etruscan inscriptions. The Piacenza Liver is a highly interesting document of the utmost importance for the understanding of Etruscan religion. It will appear that the network with the inscribed names of divinities on both sides of the Liver depicts a microcosmos reflecting the macrocosmos, the Etruscan division of heaven.
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Brill The Mills-Bakeries of Ostia: Description and Interpretation
Book SynopsisThe ruins of Ostia, main harbour of Imperial Rome, were uncovered in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century. In the present volume the remains of three buildings used for the milling of grain and baking of bread (pistrina) are studied according to modern archaeological standards. A detailed analysis of the architecture and masonry allows a description of the installation and vicissitudes of the pistrina. Subsequently the distribution of these buildings in the city and their place in the neighbourhood is studied. The technical achievement of the Ostian bakers is assessed. Although water-power was sometimes used in Roman grain-mills, this was not the case in Ostia. This in turn affects estimates of the output of the pistrina. Nevertheless the amount of bread that was produced must have been considerably higher than that in Pompeii, where many small bakeries have been preserved. No remains of bakeries have ever been found in Rome or Constantinople, but it may be assumed that the average bakery in these cities did not differ much from the Ostian workshops. Involvement of the fisc with the Ostian bakers has already been suggested by Bakker in Living and Working with the Gods. The role of the Emperor is dealt with in this volume once more. The Ostian corpus pistorum presumably fed Imperial slaves and the local fire-brigade. There are good reasons to assume that Ostia, like Rome, knew distributions of free grain.Table of ContentsContributions by: J.Th. Bakker, J.H. van Dalen, Th.L. Heres, B. Meijlink, A.J.B. Sirks.
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Forgotten Books Histoire Ancienne de lAfrique du Nord Vol 3 Histoire Militaire de Carthage Classic Reprint
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Cultural History of Western Empires in
Book SynopsisCarlos F. Noreña is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He is author of Imperial Ideals in the Roman West (2011), co-editor of From Document to History: Epigraphic Insights into the Greco-Roman World (2018) and The Emperor and Rome: Space, Representation, and Ritual (2010). He is currently working on a book on law, empire and political culture in the Roman Republic.Trade ReviewEach volume could successfully stand alone as a reference work on an era: Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Age of Enlightenment, the Age of Empire, and the Modern Age ... The introductory essay to each is a valuable resource for comparing traditional political and economic histories with the more critical and cultural works presented in subsequent chapters. Accompanying each volume is a list of illustrations, notes, further reading, and an index ... Overall, students seeking a comparative, interdisciplinary, and compelling account of the spread of Western empires will find much of interest here. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty * CHOICE *Table of ContentsGeneral Editor's Preface, Antoinette Burton (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) Introduction, Carlos F. Noreña, (University of California Berkeley, USA) 1. War, Michael Taylor, (University of Texas at Austin, USA) 2. Trade, Sitta von Reden, (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany) 3. Natural Worlds, Nicholas Purcell, (University of Oxford, UK) 4. Labor, Elio Lo Cascio, (Universita di Roma, Italy) 5. Mobility, Sailakshmi Ramgopal, (University of Chicago, USA) 6. Sexuality, Caroline Vout, (University of Cambridge, UK) 7. Resistance, Lisa Pilar Eberle, (University of Oxford, UK) 8. Race, Emma Dench, (Harvard University, USA) Notes Further Reading Notes on Contributors Index
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Edinburgh University Press Roman Law Before the Twelve Tables
Book SynopsisBringing together a team of international experts from different subject areas including law, history, archaeology and anthropology this book re-evaluates the traditional narratives surrounding the origins of Roman law before the enactment of the Twelve Tables.
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Edinburgh University Press Wrongful Damage to Property in Roman Law
Book SynopsisThis volume investigates the peculiarly British fixation with the the lex Aquilia, a Roman statute enacted c.287/286 BCE to reform the Roman law on wrongful damage to property, against thebackdrop larger themes such as the development of delict/tort in Britain and the rise of comparative law.
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Forgotten Books Montesquieu's Considerations on the Cause of the Grandeur and Declension of the Roman Empire (Classic Reprint)
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Walter de Gruyter Satiren / Saturae
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Kohlhammer Das Romische Kaiserreich: Aufstieg Und Fall Einer
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Kohlhammer Kaiserliche Autoritat in Kult- Und Gottermotiven:
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Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Die Epigraphische Kultur an Oberrhein Und Neckar
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Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG Latein Lernen Wie in Der Antike:
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Verlag-Antike Stadttor und Stadteingang: Zur Alltags- und Kulturgeschichte der Stadt in der romischen Kaiserzeit
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Verlag Antike Die Stadtromische Supplicatio in Republikanischer
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