epub |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Hoyos, Dexter;

10 CARTHAGE IN RETREAT: 210–206 NEW CARTHAGE, 209 Claudius Nero was a stopgap, even if an effective one. He was probably astonished nonetheless to learn, late in 210, who would ...

epub |eng | 2017-10-24 | Author:Guy de la Bédoyère & Malk Williams [Bédoyère, Guy de la & Williams, Malk]

CHAPTER 8 CONCORDIA EXERCITUUM (98–180) The Praetorian Guard had played an enormously important part in the imperial politics of the first century AD. This also coincided with our richest body ...

epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Teitler, H. C.;

Chapter 2 1. CONSTANTINE: PLRE I, Constantinus 4; Kienast 19962, 298–303; cf., e.g., Neri 1992, Lenski 2006, Schuller and Wolff 2007, Van Dam 2011, Barnes 2011, Maraval 2011, Bardill 2012, ...

epub |eng | 2019-01-15 | Author:Steele Brand [Brand, Steele]

GLORIFIED VICTORS Paullus followed up his victory with the occupation and administration of Macedonia. The Roman army was warmly received by a number of Macedonians who had grown weary of ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2014-01-15 | Author:Philip Kay [Kay, Philip]

Trade, Capital, and Interconnected Markets 191 state reserves and temple treasures, into circulation again and put them to productive use. Just as the commercial revolutions of the thirteenth and sixteenth ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Anthony Kaldellis

YOU BECOME WHAT YOU PRETEND A thief disguised himself as a monk in order to enter a nunnery and let his accomplices in at night, but the sisters mistook him ...

epub |eng | 2019-08-28 | Author:Daisy Dunn

It is tempting to see the influence of Pliny the Elder’s passages on art in the design of the Tuscan estate itself. Outside, in the hippodrome garden, Nature was shaped ...

epub |eng | 2018-02-21 | Author:Douglas Boin

The Edict on Maximum Prices, 301 CE One surviving law is Diocletian’s “Edict on Maximum Prices,” an emergency economic measure known from several fragments of Greek and Latin inscriptions that ...

epub |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:Alston, Richard; Alston, Richard;

FIGURE 5 Cleopatra: A head of Cleopatra depicting her in the tradition of Greek queens. Antony and Cleopatra is the story that has everything, but as a story, it risks ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2008-09-03 | Author:James J. O'Donnell [O'Donnell, James J.]

This anticipates Justinian’s prescription for the council that he would hold at Constantinople two decades later: sacrifice the reputation of named individuals left and right as a way to agreement. ...

epub |eng | 2007-11-13 | Author:Goodman, Martin, 1953-

War Both Romans and Jews made war frequently in the first century bce and the first century ce. Roman campaigns of imperial expansion were to continue at irregular intervals throughout ...

azw3 |eng | 2018-06-27 | Author:Aldhouse-Green, Miranda [Aldhouse-Green, Miranda]

Ravens and ‘bird-men’ ‘Conare took his sling and stepped from his chariot and followed the great speckled birds until he reached the ocean. The birds went on the waves, but ...

epub |eng | 2011-09-08 | Author:Petronius [Petronius]

50 They lock little fingers into the snake-jaws, Each for the other, neither from self-love – Brother for brother, their love is requited, Death a deliverance from mutual mourning. Added ...

epub |eng | 2014-09-03 | Author:Jerry Toner [Toner, Jerry]

COMMENTARY Falx’s tougher side re-emerges in this chapter. But the physical punishment of slaves by their Roman masters was normal, acceptable and routine. In Roman comedies by Plautus, for example, ...

epub |eng | 2010-11-14 | Author:Abbott, Jacob [Abbott, Jacob]

CHAPTER VII The Battle of Pharsalia THE gathering of the armies of Cæsar and Pompey on the opposite shores of the Adriatic Sea was one of the grandest preparations for ...