Empire of the Romans: From Julius Caesar to Justinian: Six Hundred Years of Peace and War, Volume II: Select Anthology

ISBN-13: 9781444334586 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 512 str.

Matthews, John

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PrefaceLis of FiguresPart I. Building an Empire1. "Contests of the Powerful"; Appian's Civil War2. A Roman senator mourns his wife; "Laudatio Turiae"3. Vitruvius, On Architecture, Preface & Introduction4. Past and future in Vergil's Aeneid; the battle of Actium5. The Authorised Version; Augustus' Res Gestae6. The Secular Games:1. Zosimus, New History2. Inscriptions on the conduct of the games3. Q. Horatius Flaccus, Carmen Saeculare7. An admirer of Tiberius; Velleius Paterculus, History of Rome8. An embassy to Caligula; Philo, Legatio ad Gaium9. Victims of tyranny; the deaths of Seneca and Lucan10. Episodes from the last years of Nero:1. Tiridates at Rome2. The Grand Tour of Hellas3. The Liberation of Hellas11. Plautus Silvanus, legate of MoesiaPart II. Pax Romana: "A Polite and Powerful Empire"12. The life and death of the elder Pliny13. The Discourses of Epictetus14. Scenes from Metropolitan Life: Epigrams of Martial15. Civic Life at Ephesus:1. Duties of the proconsul2. A wealthy professor3. A disruptive visitor4. Inscriptions of Ephesus5. The Plancii of Perge: a prominent family of Asia Minor16. Public life and occupations in Artemidorus' Dream-Book17. A career choice; Lucian's Dream18. Labour costs in Diocletian's Edict on Maximum Prices:1. Trades and Professions2. Prices of slaves19. Games and entertainments:1. Epitaphs of gladiators2. A record-breaking charioteer; G. Appuleius Diocles20. A visit to the country21. Travelling to court in the Digest22. Lucian, The Ship:1. The Ship2. Letter from a crewman3. The sailing season23. Life in the Armed Forces:1. A military exploit2. Hadrian addresses the troops3. A tour of inspection; Arrian's Circumnavigation of the Black Sea4. A legionary surveyor and engineer5. Joining the navy; recruits write home6. Retirement from the army; a military diploma7. A soldier makes his will24. Religion, Philosophy, Science:1. Apuleius & the goddess Isis2. Aelius Aristides & the god Asklepios3. A Chapter of Accidents: Fronto and Marcus Caesar4. Galen's Prognosis5. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "To Himself"25. Crime and punishment in the Digest26. A Hearing before the Proconsul: Acts of the Scillitan MartyrsPart III. Rising to the Challenge27. A witness to his age; the Roman History of Cassius Dio:1. The last days of Commodus2. The end of Dio's History28. The Great King blows the trumpet29. The Thirteenth Sibylline Oracle30. The Canonical Letter of Gregory Thaumaturgus31. A philosopher's circle; Eunapius' Life of Porphyry32. The Herulian attack on Athens33. The Martyrdom of Cyprian34. Christian persecutions in the papyri35. Maximinus and the Christians36. Legal Proceedings before the consularis NumidiaePart IV. A New Empire37. Diary of an official38. Cities of Constantine (1), Constantinople, "New Rome":1. Zosimus, New History2. Chronicon Paschale39. Cities of Constantine (2), Rome: the Liber Pontificalis40. Cities of Constantine (3), Jerusalem: the church of the Holy Sepulchre41. Orcistus and Nacolia: a question of civic status42. Sopatros and Ablabius; the philosopher and the politician43. Tribulations of an army officer; the Abinnaeus Archive44. On Their Majesties' Service1. The emperor restores a reputation2. Obelisks' tales45. Warfare and Romance on the Tigris frontier1. An officer in the field2. The wife of Craugasius46. An adventure in the desert; Jerome, Life of Malchus47. Julian and the Platonists48. Letter to a Priest49. A letter from Hierapolis50. The surrender of Nisibis:1. Ammianus Marcellinus 25.8.13-9.62. Ephraim, Third Hymn against Julian51. Pagan and Christian Virtues in the Roman Aristocracy1. Vettius Agorius Praetextatus2. Sextus Petronius Probus52. The last days of Monica in Augustine Confessions 9.23(33)53. Their Majesties' Voice; Selections from the Theodosian CodePart V. Facing the Future54. The life & work of Ulfila:1. Philostorgius, Ecclesiastical History 2.52. Jordanes, Getica 2673. The Letter of Auxentius55. The origin of the Huns in Jordanes (Getica 121-133)56. The Eucharisticon of Paulinus of Pella57. Rutilius Namatianus, De Reditu Suo58. Claudius Postumus Dardanus and the City of God59. At the Royal Court of Attila:1. An embassy to Attila2. Attila's banquet3. The death of Attila60. The end of Roman Noricum; extracts from the Life of Severinus61. Public Business (1): "Gesta amplissimi senatus"62. Public Business (2): The Council of Chalcedon63. A Hall of Mirrors: Ostrogoth and Roman at the court of Ravenna:1. Cassiodorus' Variae2. The Consolation of Philosophy64. Emperor and people at Byzantium: the Nika Riot1. Procopius Wars 1.24-1-72. "Acts against Calapodius"3. Malalas, Chronicle s.a. 5324. Chronicon Paschale65. Confirmation of the Digest66. Recovering the west in Procopius1. Syracuse (Wars 3.14.1-17)2. Lepcis Magna (Buildings 6.4.1-10)3 Rome (Wars 5.18.6-29)Part VI. Epilogue: Ruins of a Roman Landscape67. The lost pleasures of a hot bath68. Venetian origins?69. Accident in a derelict amphitheatre70. "The Works of Giants"71. "Maumbury Rings"

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JOHN MATTHEWS is Professor Emeritus of Classics and History, Yale University, USA. He received his PhD from Oxford University in 1969 and taught Greek and Roman history at Oxford for many years before moving to Yale in 1996. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1990. He is author of many books including Western Aristocracies and Imperial Court, A.D. 364-425, The Roman Empire of Ammianus,??Laying Down the Law: A Study of the Theodosian Code, and Roman Perspectives: Studies in the social, political and cultural history of the First to Fifth Centuries. He is also co-author of the acclaimed Atlas of the Roman World.