Kategoria BISAC: History >> Ancient - Rome

From 1974 to the present, the Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICA) at the University of Texas at Austin has carried out archaeological excavations and surveys in ancient territories (chorae) in southern Italy. This wide-ranging investigation, which covers a large number of sites and a time period ranging from prehistory to the Middle Ages, has unearthed a wealth of new information about ancient rural economies and cultures in the region. These discoveries will be published in two multivolume series (Metaponto and Croton). This volume on the Neolithic settlement at Capo Alfiere is the...

Die Einstellung Konstantins des Groen zum Christengott und die Motive und Ziele der Politik des Kaisers gegenuber den Christen und ihrem Klerus sind bis heute umstritten. In Auseinandersetzung mit der Forschung der letzten 150 Jahre bietet der Autor zunachst eine in verschiedenen Einzelaspekten neue Rekonstruktion der Abwendung Konstantins vom Paganismus und seiner Hinwendung zum Christentum in den Jahren 310 bis 312. Analysiert werden sodann im Kontext des Aufstiegs zur Alleinherrschaft seine fruhesten Selbstzeugnisse als Christ, seine 312 massiv einsetzende ideelle und materielle...

This study into the person and the politics of the East Roman Emperor Leo attempts to reconstruct the events of the years AD 457-460 as exactly as possible. It revolves around the Council of Chalcedon and the religious and political conflict caused by the assassination of the Patriarch of Alexandria. The book also examines the tense relationship with the Western Empire, the Goths, and the mighty General Aspar, as well as the laws passed by the Emperor. An extensive excursus underpins and expands the chronological narrative in more detail.

Papers from the conference held by The Friends of the Whithorn Trust in Whithorn on September 15th 2007

This book includes papers from the international conference held at Chester, England, in February 2007 on Roman Amphitheatres and Spectacular.

This volume presents closely connected articles by Elaine Fantham, which deal with Roman responses to Greek literature on three major subjects: the history and criticism of Latin poetry and rhetoric, women in Roman life and dramatic poetry and the poetic representation of children in relation to their mothers and teachers. The volume opens with papers on Roman comedy: Menaechmi, Trinummus, Hautontimorumenos, papers on women of the demimonde in Truculentus and Eunuchus, Cistellaria and Poenulus. The second part deals with...

Lucan's Bellum Civile is one of the most impressive and unusual works of Silver Age Latin literature, and has been the subject of much research in recent years. In this volume well-known experts on Lucan examine the poetological, narratological and stylistic techniques the author employed to write on the theme of civil war. The epic poem is at once both conforms to and exceeds the tradition of the genre, and confronts its readers with a new kind of aesthetic.