Kategoria BISAC: History >> Ancient - Rome

Winner, Tullis Prize, Texas State Historical Association, 2004

Baetica, the present-day region of Andalusia in southern Spain, was the wealthiest province of the Roman Empire. Its society was dynamic and marked by upward social and economic mobility, as the imperial peace allowed the emergence of a substantial middle social and economic stratum. Indeed, so mutually beneficial was the imposition of Roman rule on the local population of Baetica that it demands a new understanding of the relationship between Imperial Rome and its provinces.

Baetica Felix builds...

In this exploration of the administration of law and its role in the lives of ordinary people in the northern provinces of the Roman Empire, Serena Connolly draws upon a rich but little-known legal collection from the late 3rd century known as the Codex Hermogenianus. The codex is composed of imperial responses to petitions sent to Rome, written by a team of the emperor's legal experts. These petitions and responses provide a wealth of information about provincial legal administration and the lives of the non-elite petitioners. The man who prostituted his wife, the mother whose malicious...

A thrilling story that has inspired novelists and filmmakers: The real-life Spartacus is even more amazing than his fictional counterparts. A slave from Thrace (modern day Bulgaria),...

Die interdisziplinare Forschergruppe Nomen et Gens widmet sich seit mehr als einem Jahrzehnt der Erforschung der wechselseitigen Abhangigkeit von Personennamen und Gruppenzugehorigkeiten. Die Beitrage des vorliegenden Bandes sind Ergebnis des dritten internationalen Kolloquiums im Marz 2002, das in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Deutschen Historischen Institut in Paris und dem Paderborner Institut zur Interdisziplinaren Erforschung des Mittelalters und seines Nachwirkens (IEMAN) veranstaltet wurde. Die politische Einigung weiter Teile Mittel- und Westeuropas durch die Franken und die...

The assassination of Julius Caesar is one of the most notorious murders in history. Two thousand years after it occurred, many compelling questions remain about his death: Was Brutus the hero and Caesar the villain? Did Caesar bring death on himself by planning to make himself king of Rome? Was Mark Antony aware of the plot, and let it go forward? Who wrote Antony's script after Caesar's death? Using historical evidence to sort out these and other puzzling issues, historian and award-winning author Stephen...

In this book, prominent historians apply Mediterranean paradigms to Classical Mediterranean Antiquty (Greece and Rome), allowing for a new approach to the ancient world and enhancing antiquity's relevance to the understanding of other historical periods as well as our contemporary world.

This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal Mediterranean Historical Review.

Der Kampf gegen die Donatisten im romischen Nordafrika pragte die Amtszeit des Bischofs Augustinus. Um die Ansichten der Donatisten zu widerlegen, greift er in seinen Schriften neben theologischen Argumenten auf Ereignisse aus der Entstehungszeit des Schismas zuruck. Mithilfe historischer Dokumente und ihrer Interpretation wollte Augustinus beweisen, dass die Donatisten zu Unrecht behaupteten, die reine, von "Traditoren" freie Kirche zu reprasentieren.
Ausgehend von den antidonatistischen Schriften und Briefen zeigt Arne Hogrefe, wie Augustinus die Geschichte des Schismas rekonstruiert...

Together with Theodor Mommsen, Hermann Dessau (1856-1931) shaped the course of classical studies at the Prussian Academy of Science for several decades. This volume of papers analyses the conditions under which the Jewish scholar worked, as well as the main topics of his research: the edition and commentary of Latin inscriptions (CIL, ILS), research on the Historia Augusta, prosopography of the Ancient World (PIR) and Roman Imperial history. The papers presented here are supplemented by an edition of his most important academic correspondence.

Aspects of Roman History 82BC-AD14 examines the political and military history of Rome and its empire in the Ciceronian and Augustan ages. It is an indispensable introduction to this central period of Roman History for all students of Roman history, from pre-university to undergraduate level.

This is the first book since H.H. Scullard's From the Gracchi to Nero, published two generations ago, to offer a full introductory account of one of the most compelling and vital periods in the history of Europe. Aspects of Roman History 82BC-AD14:

In AD 200, the Roman Empire seemed unassailable, its vast territory accounting for most of the known world. By the end of the fifth century, Roman rule had vanished in western Europe and much of northern Africa, and only a shrunken Eastern Empire remained. In his account of the fall of the Roman Empire, prizewinning author Adrian Goldsworthy examines the painful centuries of the superpower's decline. Bringing history to life through the stories of the men, women, heroes, and villains involved, the author uncovers surprising lessons about the rise and fall of great nations.

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