| |
Despite the developing emphasis in current scholarship on children in Roman culture, there has been relatively little research to date on the role and significance of the youngest children within the family and in society. This volume singles out this youngest age...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-03-22
ePub
|
Sabina Augusta (ca. 85-ca. 137), wife of the emperor Hadrian (reigned 117-38), accumulated more public honors in Rome and the provinces than any imperial woman had enjoyed since the first empress, Augustus' wife Livia. Indeed,Sabina is the first woman whose image...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-03-12
PDF, ePub
|
Roman Disasters looks at how the Romans coped with, thought about, and used disasters for their own ends. Rome has been famous throughout history for its great triumphs. Yet Rome also suffered colossal disasters. From the battle of Cannae, where fifty thousand men...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-03-07
PDF, ePub
|
What is good luck and what did it mean to the Romans?What connections were there between luck and childbirth, victory in war, or success in business?What did Roman statesmen like Cicero and Caesar think about luck? This volume aims to address these questions by focusing...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-03-01
ePub
|
Despite the developing emphasis in current scholarship on children in Roman culture, there has been relatively little research to date on the role and significance of the youngest children within the family and in society. This volume singles out this youngest age...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-03-01
PDF
|
What is good luck and what did it mean to the Romans?What connections were there between luck and childbirth, victory in war, or success in business?What did Roman statesmen like Cicero and Caesar think about luck? This volume aims to address these questions by focusing...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-02-23
PDF
|
In AD 60/61, Rome almost lost the province of Britain to a woman. Boudica, wife of the client king Prasutagus, fomented a rebellion that proved catastrophic for Camulodunum (Colchester), Londinium (London), and Verulamium (St Albans), destroyed part of a Roman legion,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-01-15
PDF, ePub
|
This deluxe edition of the world's most beloved, bestselling classic on Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology is stunningly illustrated with specially commissioned full-color plates and a beautiful gold-bordered pages. Since its original publication in 1942, Edith...
Editeur :
Black Dog & Leventhal
Parution :
2017-09-26
ePub
|
One of the most remarkable trends in the humanities and social sciences in recent decades has been the resurgence of interest in the history, theory, and practice of rhetoric: in an age of global media networks and viral communication, rhetoric is once again...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-09-20
PDF, ePub
|
The Traffic Systems of Pompeii is the first sustained examination of the development of road infrastructure in Pompeii-from the archaic age to the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 CE-and its implications for urbanism in the Roman empire. Eric E. Poehler, an authority on...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-09-12
PDF, ePub
|
The biographies collected in this volume bring together Plutarch's Lives of those great men who established the city of Rome and consolidated its supremacy, and his Comparisons with their notable Greek counterparts. Here he pairs Romulus, mythical founder of Rome, with...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2017-07-25
ePub
|
In the second half of the tenth century, Byzantium embarked on a series of spectacular conquests: first in the southeast against the Arabs, then in Bulgaria, and finally in the Georgian and Armenian lands. By the early eleventh century, the empire was the most powerful...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-06-07
PDF, ePub
|
The Universal History (Patmut?iwn tiezerakan) of Step?anos Taronec?i is a history of the world in three books, composed by the Armenian scholar at the end of the tenth century and extending from the era of Abraham to the turn of the first millennium. It was completed in...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-02
PDF
|
Mercury's Wings: Exploring Modes of Communication in the Ancient World is the first-ever volume of essays devoted to ancient communications. Comparable previous work has been mainly confined to articles on aspects of communication in the Roman empire. This set of 18...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-04-27
PDF, ePub
|
The scholarly community has become increasingly aware of the differences between Roman myths and the more familiar myths of Greece. Early Rome: Myth and Society steps in to provide much-needed modern and accessible translations and commentaries on Italian legends. This...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2017-04-03
Collection :
Blackwell Sourcebooks in Ancient History
PDF, ePub
|
A philosopher, mathematician, and martyr, Hypatia is one of antiquity's best known female intellectuals. During the sixteen centuries following her murder, by a mob of Christians, Hypatia has been remembered in books, poems, plays, paintings, and films as a victim of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-02-14
PDF, ePub
|
In Diodorus Siculus and the World of the Late Roman Republic, Charles E. Muntz offers a fresh look at one of the most neglected historians of the ancient world, and recovers Diodorus's originality and importance as a witness to a profoundly tumultuous period in...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-01-02
PDF, ePub
|
In the early second century CE, two Jewish women, Babatha and Salome Komaise, lived in the village of Maoza on the southern coast of the Dead Sea. This was first part of the Nabataean Kingdom, but came under direct Roman rule in 106 CE as part of the province of Roman...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-12-22
ePub
|
Res Publica and the Roman Republic tells the story of an idea - res publica - and shows us what it meant and was made to mean in the particular historical context of the late Roman Republic. Since the term was politically ubiquitous, often used emotively, and as a...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-12-22
PDF
|
In the early second century CE, two Jewish women, Babatha and Salome Komaise, lived in the village of Maoza on the southern coast of the Dead Sea. This was first part of the Nabataean Kingdom, but came under direct Roman rule in 106 CE as part of the province of Roman...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-12-22
PDF
|