Magnus Pius

Author : Kathryn Welch
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
ISBN 13 : 1910589152
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Magnus Pius written by Kathryn Welch and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sextus Pompeius Magnus Pius, son of Pompey the Great, fits uneasily - or not at all - into the grand narrative of the civil war of 49-31BC. Modern scholars tend to exclude him or mention him without asking what or whom he represented. Ronald Syme, the father of international orthodoxy in this field, famously remarked that Sextus was 'in reality an adventurer' who was 'easily represented as a pirate'. He was wrong. Sextus Pompeius plays havoc with key elements of the accepted narrative. His military success destroys the myth of continuous Caesarian victory. His commitment to rescuing the victims of Triumviral violence belies claims that only the Caesarian side represented clementia and justice. The naval strategy by which he conducted the war demonstrates his commitment to the same cause and ethics as his father and his father's allies. Welch argues that, far from being a 'side-show' or a 'bit player', Sextus Pompeius was integral to the fight for the res publica. She solves the 'problem' by placing him at the centre of the story of Rome's transition from Republic to Empire and so reveals a very different landscape that emerges as a result.

Author : Jonathan Edmondson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748695389
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Augustus written by Jonathan Edmondson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-24 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a selection of the most important scholarship on Augustus and the contribution he made to the development of the Roman state in the early imperial period.

Author : Sara Elise Phang
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004453253
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Marriage of Roman Soldiers (13 B.C. - A.D. 235) written by Sara Elise Phang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first and second centuries A.D., Roman soldiers were forbidden legitimate marriage during service: nevertheless, many soldiers formed de facto marriages. This book examines the legal, social, and cultural aspects of the marriage prohibition and soldiers' families. The first section covers the marriage prohibition in Roman literary and legal sources. The second section treats social and legal aspects of the soldiers' families, including a survey of epitaphs, the legal impact of the ban on families, and alternatives to family formation. The final section examines the marriage ban as military policy and its relation to Roman culture. This book will be of interest to scholars of the Roman army, Roman social history, and family law. Students of gender and sexuality in the ancient world will also find it relevant.

Author : Georgia L. Irby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350155853
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Using and Conquering the Watery World in Greco-Roman Antiquity written by Georgia L. Irby and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume considers how Greco-Roman authorities manipulated water on the practical, technological, and political levels. Water was controlled and harnessed with legal oversight and civic infrastructure (e.g., aqueducts). Waterways were 'improved' and made accessible by harbors, canals, and lighthouses. The Mediterranean Sea and Outer Ocean (and numerous rivers) were mastered by navigation for warfare, exploration, settlement, maritime trade, and the exploitation of marine resources (such as fishing). These waterways were also a robust source of propaganda on coins, public monuments, and poetic encomia as governments vied to establish, maintain, or spread their identities and predominance. This first complete study of the ancient scientific and public engagement with water makes a major contribution to classics, geography, hydrology and the history of science alike. In the ancient Mediterranean Basin, water was a powerful tool of human endeavor, employed for industry, trade, hunting and fishing, and as an element in luxurious aesthetic installations (public and private fountains). The relationship was complex and pervasive, touching on every aspect of human life, from mundane acts of collecting water for the household, to private and public issues of comfort and health (latrines, sewers, baths), to the identity of the state writ large.

Author : William Betham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genealogical Tables of the Sovereigns of the World written by William Betham and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1170 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 1170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hannah Cornwell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192528149
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pax and the Politics of Peace written by Hannah Cornwell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps in defiance of expectations, Roman peace (pax) was a difficult concept that resisted any straightforward definition: not merely denoting the absence or aftermath of war, it consisted of many layers and associations and formed part of a much greater discourse on the nature of power and how Rome saw her place in the world. During the period from 50 BC to AD 75 - covering the collapse of the Republic, the subsequent civil wars, and the dawn of the Principate-the traditional meaning and language of peace came under extreme pressure as pax was co-opted to serve different strands of political discourse. This volume argues for its fundamental centrality in understanding the changing dynamics of the state and the creation of a new political system in the Roman Empire, moving from the debates over the content of the concept in the dying Republic to discussion of its deployment in the legitimization of the Augustan regime, first through the creation of an authorized version controlled by the princeps and then the ultimate crystallization of the pax augusta as the first wholly imperial concept of peace. Examining the nuances in the various meanings, applications, and contexts of Roman discourse on peace allows us valuable insight into the ways in which the dynamics of power were understood and how these were contingent on the political structures of the day. However it also demonstrates that although the idea of peace came to dominate imperial Rome's self-representation, such discourse was nevertheless only part of a wider discussion on the way in which the Empire conceptualized itself.

Author : Philipp Jacob SPENER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 950 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sylloge genealogico-historica; e numero præcipuarum familiarum, quibus suos Principes Germania nostra debet, duodecim exhibens ... Edito secunda multo auctior et emendatior written by Philipp Jacob SPENER and published by . This book was released on 1677 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nic Fields
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147284906X
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carrhae 53 BC written by Nic Fields and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the critical battle of Carrhae, a fascinating tale of treachery, tactics, and topography in which Rome experienced one of its most humiliating defeats. The Battle of Carrhae is from a heady moment in Roman history – that of the clever carve-up of power between the 'First Triumvirate' of Caius Iulius Caesar, Cnaeus Pompeius Magnus and Marcus Licinius Crassus (the Roman general who had famously put down the Spartacan revolt). It is a fascinating tale of treachery, tactics, and topography in which Rome experienced one of its most humiliating defeats at the hands of the Parthians, not far from a trade-route town hunkered down on the fringes of the arid wastes of northern Mesopotamia, sending shock waves through the Roman power structure. In this work, classical historian Dr Nic Fields draws out the crucial psychological and political factors (including Crassus' lust for military glory and popular acclaim) that played a key role in this brutal battle. Despite being heavily outnumbered, the Parthian general Surena's horsemen completely outmanoeuvered Crassus' legionaries, killing or capturing most of the Roman soldiers. The detailed battlescene artworks reveal the tactics and techniques of the Parthian horse archers, and Roman and Parthian equipment and weaponry, and the approach to battle is clearly explained in 2d maps and 3D bird's-eye views.

Author : Christopher S. van den Berg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108495958
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics and Poetics of Cicero's Brutus written by Christopher S. van den Berg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cicero's dialogue on oratory responded to the political crisis of Julius Caesar but ultimately invented 'modern' literary history.