Search results for 'myths of rome'

ISBN: 9780977409457
Published by : Bannerstone Press
"There was once a dream that was Rome." So says the old emperor Marcus Aurelius in Ridley Scott's epic Gladiator . It was a Rome of free citizens, brave, incorruptible, loved by the gods. It had its own myths, the stories that defined what th... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780859897044
Published by : The Exeter Press
"There was once a dream that was Rome." So says the old emperor Marcus Aurelius in Ridley Scott's epic Gladiator . It was a Rome of free citizens, brave, incorruptible, loved by the gods. It had its own myths, the stories that defined what th... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781841712192
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
Series: BAR
Volume: 921
A series of seven lectures, presented at the Wincklemann-Insitut der Humboldt-Universität in Berlin in 1998 and 1999, which explore the nature and extent of the Romanisation of Britain, France and Germany. Subjects include monumental and urban ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788882651008
Published by : L'Erma di Bretschneider
A meticuously detailed investigation of Rome's practical solution to the problems of providing and distributing the city's water supply between the end of the Republic and Trajan's reign. Taylor's principal aims are to determine where and why a... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780520226739
Published by : University of California Press
This abridged edition of the magesterial three-volume The Forum of Trajan in Rome makes this definitive study of the acknowledged showplace of Imperial Rome available to a wider audience. Published without the scholarly apparatus of the original... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9783515074957
Published by : Franz Steiner Verlag
Livy's work is of interest to two distinct schools of history and literary criticism and Forsythe argues that this has resulted in some conflicting interpretations about various aspects, including Livy's sources and his relationship to his sub... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782728305773
Published by : Ecole francaise de Rome
A detailed study and description of the architectural development and modification of the Roman forum at Paestum. This is followed by syntheses on the curia by P. Vitti, and the architectural and decorative sculpture found within the forum by ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782728305476
Published by : Ecole francaise de Rome
An extremely detailed report on the religious monuments of 3 sites in Tunis: Ammaedara, famous as the base camp of 3rd legion of Augustus, the Christian site and Byzantine citadel at Haïdra. The discussion of the citadel begins with a history o... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780415212847
Published by : Routledge Ltd
Many different sources and types of evidence can be collated and interpreted to reveal an understanding of what it was like to 'experience' Rome. These twelve essays, originally written for an Open University course, explore both general and sp... .... Learn More