Rome
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-03-03 | Author:Prokopios [Dewing (trans.), H. B.;Kaldellis (ed.), Anthony]

[23] So spoke the Romans. Belisarios replied as follows: [Belisarios to the Roman populace] As for me, I have been quite prepared for your reaction in every respect, and nothing ...
( Category: Rome March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Pitassi

The site of the naval base of Misenum, seen from Monte Procida. The greatest naval base of the Imperial navy and headquarters of its senior fleet, the Classis Misenensis. The ...
( Category: Engineering March 3,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lehoux, Daryn

Predictability and Determinism Of all the predictive sciences in antiquity, astrology is especially prone to questions of determinism. This is because astrological signs are importantly different from other kinds of ...
( Category: History & Philosophy February 29,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lenski, Noel;

Strong-Arm Tactics Constantine’s willingness to accept advances from constituencies that were far from orthodox Christian (like the Hispellates or Athenians) and to permit the construction of his own self-image at ...
( Category: Music February 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-03 | Author:Patricia Southern

5 BATH PEOPLE The collection of people’s names recorded on inscriptions and curse tablets presumably represents only a fraction of the residents and visitors who were connected with Roman Bath. ...
( Category: Tourist Destinations & Museums February 28,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tacitus

* * * BOOK III. — A.D. 20-22. ~ AGRIPPINA, NOTWITHSTANDING THE ROUGHNESS OF winter, pursuing without intermission her boisterous voyage, put in at the Island Corcyra, situate over against ...
( Category: Rome February 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2004-09-03 | Author:Michael Parenti [Parenti, Michael]

So too is Marcus Brutus hailed as acting only from upright motives. Brutus could not hide his distaste for Caesar’s reforms, showing little sympathy for destitute petitioners and much concern ...
( Category: Rome February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-31 | Author:Shotter, David; [David Shotter]

7 TIBERIUS AND THE EMPIRE Shortly before Augustus’ death in AD 14 he had allegedly instructed his successor not to engage in imperialist adventures but to retain the empire within ...
( Category: Rome February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-21 | Author:Jaś Elsner

( Category: History & Theory February 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-03 | Author:Terry Deary [Deary, Terry]

( Category: Art February 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-30 | Author:James Mace [Mace, James]

T aricheae was an important strategic city for Josephus and the rebellion. Located north of Tiberias, on the western edge of the Sea of Galilee, it served as a local ...
( Category: Rome February 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:James Mace [Mace, James]

Chapter XX: Strike, if best for Rome The Forum, Rome 15 January 69 A.D. Praetorian Optio It was another hour before Statius and Atticus reached their destinations. The streets were ...
( Category: War February 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-28 | Author:James Mace [Mace, James]

For Antonius Primus, the sudden and unexpected truce came as a sign that the divines were favoring the Flavians this night. The utter exhaustion of his army, coupled with hunger ...
( Category: War February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Catalina Balmaceda

1. See, for example, Syme, Velleius’ most powerful enemy: “Mendacious as well as misleading,” in “Marcus Vinicius (cos. 19 B.C.),” 147n3; “fraudulent,” in Roman Revolution, 393n1.; “an uneasy amalgam of ...
( Category: Historiography January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Kathryn Tempest [Tempest, Kathryn]

Terror at Rome For the remaining months of Cicero’s life, we must make do without any speeches or letters from his hands. It makes little difference; by then Cicero had ...
( Category: Rome January 19,2020 )