Julia Domna

Author : Barbara Levick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134323514
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Julia Domna written by Barbara Levick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-10 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh reassessment of one of the most controversial figures of the her time, this book examines key questions in the study of Domna, her power, her travels and her life.

Author : Julie Langford
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421408473
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maternal Megalomania written by Julie Langford and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She employs Julia Domna as a case study to explore the creation of ideology between the emperor and its subjects.

Author : Barbara Levick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134323506
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Julia Domna written by Barbara Levick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-10 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers Julia’s life, and charts her travels throughout the Empire from Aswan to York during a period of profound upheaval, and seeks the truth about this woman who inspired such extreme and contrasting views, exposing the instability of our sources about her, and characterizing a sympathetic, courageous, intelligent, and important woman. This book contains a fresh re-assessment of the one of the most significant figures of her time and questions: • Was Julia more powerful than earlier empresses? • Did she really promote despotism? • How seriously is her literary circle to be taken? As part of a dynasty which used force and violence to preserve its rule, she was distrusted by its subjects; as a Syrian, she was the object of prejudice; as a woman with power, she was resented. On the other hand, Domna was the centre of a literary circle considered highly significant by nineteenth-century admirers.

Author : Emily Ann Hemelrijk
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415341271
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Matrona Docta written by Emily Ann Hemelrijk and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive study of the education of upper-class Roman women, and of their participation in the intellectual life of their times.

Author : Arthur L. Friedberg
Publisher : Coin & Currency Institute
ISBN 13 : 0871843080
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gold Coins of the World written by Arthur L. Friedberg and published by Coin & Currency Institute. This book was released on 2009 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: overs the entire history of world gold coinage form the 5th century B.C. through the modern coin issues of today. Part I, the section on ancient coins covers, in order, Ancient Greece, the Roman Republic and Empire and the Byzantine Empire. Part II lists the coins of the world in alphabetical order by country from approximately AD 600 to date. With current market valuations usually in the two most commonly encountered states of preservation. Tables of weight and precious metal content included with coins of each country.

Author : Steve Exeter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781086355390
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Severus written by Steve Exeter and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-09 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Severus follows the amazing true story of a rebellious boy who grew up in an African province and became the first Black Caesar of the Roman Empire, the head of a dynasty that would lead Rome through bloody civil wars and rapidly changing times. As a young man, Severus hates the Romans and conspires to humiliate them. What begins as a childish prank unfurls into a bloodbath that sends Severus careering into his future. Through a tragic love affair, dangerously close battles and threats both internal and external, Severus accrues power -- and enemies -- in his unlikely rise to become the most powerful man in the ancient world.

Author : Bernadette Descharmes
Publisher : V&R unipress GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3899717872
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freunde, Gönner und Getreue written by Bernadette Descharmes and published by V&R unipress GmbH. This book was released on 2011 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English summary: Close relationships that go beyond family ties and kinships have become an interdisciplinary research subject that has received a lot of attention. Variations of social ties such as friendship, patronage and social networks ensue from different historical and cultural contexts and, hence, constitute a significant yet under-represented subject of interdisciplinary research. Questions such as the changing semantics of friendship, historical, intercultural and political practices of friendship, patronage and loyalty were the focus of an international conference for a critical discussion and re-assessment of values and norms that constitute such relationships in different cultures and epochs, as well as the social circumstances that determine them. Aspects of interest included the constitution and representation of the body and gender and the growth of trust and deceit, as well as the culturally and historically different practices and semantics of friendship and patronage and the way they are perceived according to social status and social and historical contexts. The results of the conference are presented in this volume. German description: Nahbeziehungen, die uber familiare und verwandtschaftliche Bindungen hinausgehen, haben sich zu einem vielbeachteten Thema interdisziplinarer Forschung entwickelt. Beziehungen wie Freundschaft, Patronage und soziale Netzwerke als Variationen sozialer Bindungen sind das Ergebnis unterschiedlicher historischer wie kultureller Kontexte und stellen deshalb einen wesentlichen, aber immer noch unterreprasentierten Gegenstand interdisziplinaren Forschens dar. Fragen nach sich andernden Freundschaftssemantiken, historischen und interkulturellen bzw. politischen Praktiken von Freundschaft, Patronage und Loyalitat standen im Mittelpunkt einer internationalen Tagung, die eine kritische Diskussion und Neubewertung von Werten und Normen, die z.B. Freundschaft in verschiedenen Kulturen und historischen Epochen konstituieren, sowie der sozialen Umstande, die diese Nahbeziehungen bedingen, vorgenommen hat. Aspekte wie Konstitution und Reprasentation von Korper und Gender und das Entstehen von Vertrauen und Betrug waren dabei ebenso von Interesse wie die kulturell und historisch unterschiedliche Praxis und Semantik von Freundschaft und Patronage sowie deren jeweilige Wahrnehmung in Abhangigkeit von ihrer gesellschaftlichen Situation in verschiedenen sozialen und historischen Kontexten. Die Ergebnisse dieser Tagung werden nun im vorliegenden Band prasentiert.

Author : Michael Grant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317798988
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Severans written by Michael Grant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Severans analyses the colourful decline of the Roman Empire during the reign of the Severans, the first non-Italian dynasty. In his learned and exciting style, Michael Grant describes the foreign wars waged against the Alemanni and the Persians, and the remarkable personalities of the imperial family. Thus the reader encounters Julia Domna's alleged literary circle, or Elagabalus' curious private life - which included dancing in the streets, marrying a vestal virgin and smothering his enemies with rose petals. With its beautifully selected plate section, maps and extensive bibliography, this book will appeal to the student of ancient history as well as to the general reader. Michael Grant is one of the world's greatest writers on ancient history. His previous publications include: Art in the Roman Empire, Greek and Roman Historians and Who's Who in Classical Mythology all published by Routledge.

Author : Julie Langford
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421408481
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maternal Megalomania written by Julie Langford and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the maternal image of the empress Julia Domna helped the Roman empire rule. Ancient authors emphasize dramatic moments in the life of Julia Domna, wife of Roman emperor Septimius Severus (193–211). They accuse her of ambition unforgivable in a woman, of instigating civil war to place her sons on the throne, and of resorting to incest to maintain her hold on power. In imperial propaganda, however, Julia Domna was honored with unprecedented titles that celebrated her maternity, whether it was in the role of mother to her two sons (both future emperors) or as the metaphorical mother to the empire. Imperial propaganda even equated her to the great mother goddess, Cybele, endowing her with a public prominence well beyond that of earlier imperial women. Her visage could be found gracing everything from state-commissioned art to privately owned ivory dolls. In Maternal Megalomania, Julie Langford unmasks the maternal titles and honors of Julia Domna as a campaign on the part of the administration to garner support for Severus and his sons. Langford looks to numismatic, literary, and archaeological evidence to reconstruct the propaganda surrounding the empress. She explores how her image was tailored toward different populations, including the military, the Senate, and the people of Rome, and how these populations responded to propaganda about the empress. She employs Julia Domna as a case study to explore the creation of ideology between the emperor and its subjects.

Author : Adam M. Kemezis
Publisher : Historiography of Rome and Its
ISBN 13 : 9789004510487
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Intellectual Climate of Cassius Dio written by Adam M. Kemezis and published by Historiography of Rome and Its. This book was released on 2022 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cassius Dio (c. 160-c. 230) is a familiar name to Roman historians, but still an enigmatic one. His text has shaped our understanding of his own period and earlier eras, but basic questions remain about his Greek and Roman cultural identities and his literary and intellectual influences. Contributors to this volume read Dio against different backgrounds including the politics of the Severan court, the cultural milieu of the Second Sophistic and Roman traditions of historiography and political theory. Dio emerges as not just a recounter of events, but a representative of his times in all their complexity"--