History

ISBN: 9780292744035
Published by : University of Texas Press
Eric Adler explores the degree to which ancient historians of Rome were capable of valorizing foreigners and presenting criticisms of their own society. By examining speeches put into the mouths of barbarian leaders by a variety of writers, he ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781107657021
Published by : Cambridge University Press
In this new primarily narrative history of the final century of the Roman Republic MacKay aims to get beyond the moralistic and personality based reasoning of the ancient sources to evaulate the causes of the failure of the Republican system. M... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781849088138
Published by : Osprey
This well illustrated book collects material from a vast array of Osprey's titles on the Roman army, editing and reformatting it into a coherent whole. The development of the army is treated chronologically, with information on mi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199603084
Published by : Oxford University Press
The idea of empire was created in ancient Rome and even today the Roman empire offers a powerful image for thinking about imperialism. Traces of its monuments and literature can be found across Europe, the Near East, and North Afr... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9788392591962
Published by : Journal of Juristic Papyrology
Series: JJP Supplements
Volume: 17
Cicero's Topica is a kind of compendium of arguments that functioned in ancient philosophy and rhetoric and were destined for jurists. The present book analyzes one of the patterns of argumentation described by Cicero, an argument drawn ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781407309453
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
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ISBN: 9781905375332
Published by : Brepols
Series: ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN EARLY MODERN ITALY
Volume: 2
Although recent studies in early modern architecture have illuminated the palace culture of the families associated with Rome's papal court, the complex social and architectural history of the city's feudal nobility has remained largely unexamined... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780520248953
Published by : University of California Press
Caligula is surely the most notorious of all Roman emperors; the primary sources, Suetonius in particular, are full of the most lurid stories of depravity and cruelty. Aloys Winterling undertakes a thorough comparative review of the evidence, s... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781848853621
Published by : Tauris & Co Ltd
Elagablus, raised to the throne at the age of fourteen in 218 AD, and assassinated only four years later, remains among the most notorious and enigmatic of Roman Emperors. The contemporary and Byzantine sources on his reign portray a life of de... .... Learn More