The Patrician

Author : W. Jeffrey Tatum
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469620650
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Patrician Tribune written by W. Jeffrey Tatum and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publius Clodius Pulcher was a prominent political figure during the last years of the Roman Republic. Born into an illustrious patrician family, his early career was sullied by military failures and especially by the scandal that resulted from his allegedly disguising himself as a woman in order to sneak into a forbidden religious ceremony in the hope of seducing Caesar's wife. Clodius survived this disgrace, however, and emerged as a major political force. He renounced his patrician status and was elected tribune of the people. As tribune, he pursued an ambitious legislative agenda, winning the loyalties of the common people of Rome to such a degree that he was soon able to summon forceful, even violent, demonstrations on his own behalf. The first modern, comprehensive biography of Clodius, The Patrician Tribune traces his career from its earliest stages until its end in 52 B.C., when he was murdered by a political rival. Jeffrey Tatum explores Clodius's political successes, as well as the limitations of his popular strategies, within the broader context of Roman political practices. In the process, Tatum illuminates the relationship between the political contests of Rome's elite and the daily struggles of Rome's urban poor.

Author : Thomas M. Banchich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317501438
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost History of Peter the Patrician written by Thomas M. Banchich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lost History of Peter the Patrician is an annotated translation from the Greek of the fragments of Peter’s History, including additional fragments which are now more often considered the work of the Roman historian Cassius Dio's so-called Anonymous Continuer. Banchich’s annotation helps clarify the relationship of Peter's work to that of Cassius Dio. Focusing on the historical and historiographical rather than philological, he provides a strong framework for the understanding of this increasingly important source for the third and fourth centuries A.D. With an introduction on Peter himself - a distinguished administrator and diplomat at the court of Justinian – assessing his literary output, the relationship of the fragments of Peter's History to the fragments of the Anonymous Continuer, and the contentious issue of the place of this evidence within the framework of late antique historiography, The Lost History of Peter the Patrician will be an invaluable resource for those interested in the history of the Roman world in general and of the third and fourth centuries A.D. in particular.

Author : Westland Marston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Patrician's Daughter written by Westland Marston and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Westland MARSTON
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Patrician's Daughter ... Fourth Edition, Enlarged and Adapted for Representation written by John Westland MARSTON and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Burke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789354178047
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Patrician (Volume III) written by John Burke and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-10 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Author : Michael Penosky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781946758613
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rising written by Michael Penosky and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Denise Jacobs
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1502622572
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patricians in the Roman Empire written by Denise Jacobs and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patricians in the Roman Empire provides a glimpse into the day-to-day lives of ancient Rome's ruling class. Emperors, senators, and generals wielded almost unimaginable power at the height of the empire, and their decisions shaped not just the people they ruled but the history of Rome. This book examines the consequences of that power, from the luxury of a patrician life to the power plays that could erase it all.

Author : Dennis Romano
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421431467
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patricians and Popolani written by Dennis Romano and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1987. Since Machiavelli, historians and political theorists have sought the sources of the stability that earned for Venice the appellation La Serenissima, the Most Serene Republic. In Patricians and Popolani, Dennis Romano looks to the private lives of early Renaissance Venetians for an explanation. Fourteenth-century Venice escaped the tumultuous upheavals of the other Italian city-republics, Romano contends, because the patricians and common people of the city did not divide sharply along class or factional lines in their personal associations. Rather, Venetians of the era moved in a variety of intersecting social networks that were shaped and influenced by an overriding sense of civic community. Drawing on the private archives of Venice—notarial registers, collections of testaments, and records of estates maintained by the procurators of San Marco—Romano analyzes the primary social bonds in the lives of the city's inhabitants. In separate chapters, Patricians and Popolani examines the forms of association in everyday Venetian life: marriage and family structure; artisan workshops and relations among tradesmen; the role of the parish clergy and the "sacred networks" that formed around convents, hospitals, and confraternities; and neighborhood and patron–client ties. By the beginning of the fifteenth century, Romano argues, all these networks of association had been transformed as a new hierarchical spirit took hold and overwhelmed the older, more freewheeling tendencies of Venetian society. The old sense of community yielded to a new and equally compelling sense of place, and La Serenissima remained stable throughout the later Renaissance.

Author : John Lukacs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351499939
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philadelphia written by John Lukacs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unorthodox historian known and respected for his work on the grand conflicts of nations and civilizations, John Lukacs has peopled a smaller canvas in this volume, with seven colourful figures who flourished in Philadelphia before 1950. Their stories are framed by chapters that describe the city in 1900 and in 1950.The Philadelphians selected are a political boss, Boies Penrose; a magazine mogul, Edward Bok; an elegant writer, Agnes Repplier; an impetuous diplomat, William C. Bullitt; a lawyer, George Wharton Pepper; a prophet of decline, Owen Wister; and a great art collector, Albert C. Barnes. The political boss was perhaps the most monumental political figure of his age. The magazine mogul was the most famous embodiment of the American success story during his lifetime. The now almost forgotten writer was the Jane Austen of the essay. The diplomat was the most brilliant of ambassadors. The terrible-tempered collector was a radical proponent of his unusual theory of art.Through these seven portraits, Lukacs paints a picture of Philadelphia that is "like all living things, having the power to change out of recognition and yet remain the same." This work is a must read for all historiansand Philadelphians.

Author : Stanley Chojnacki
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801863950
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Men in Renaissance Venice written by Stanley Chojnacki and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2000-04-03 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because limited family resources favored some daughters' marriage prospects at the expense of their sisters', the family and marriage practices of the Venetian nobles led to a range of vocations for women, as well as for men.