A Critical History of Early Rome
Title | A Critical History of Early Rome PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Forsythe |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 430 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780520249912 |
"A remarkable book,in which Forsythe uses his thorough knowledge of the ancient evidence to reconstruct a coherent and eminently plausible picture which in turn illuminates early Roman society more immediately than any other category of evidence is able to do. Forsythe displays his impressive ability to demonstrate to what extent and why the tradition that dominates the extant historical narratives is not credible."—Kurt Raaflaub, author of The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece "An excellent synthetic treatment of early Roman history found in both modern literary and archaeological materials."—Richard Mitchell, author of Patricians and Plebeians
Cassius Dio’s Forgotten History of Early Rome
Title | Cassius Dio’s Forgotten History of Early Rome PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Burden-Strevens |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2018-11-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004384553 |
Cassius Dio’s Forgotten History of Early Rome brings together ten studies on the literary, historiographical, rhetorical, and generic and textual dimensions of the least explored section of Dio’s enormous history of Rome: Books 1–21.
Ancient Rome
Title | Ancient Rome PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher S. Mackay |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 476 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521809184 |
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War and Society in Early Rome
Title | War and Society in Early Rome PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy Armstrong |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | |
Release | 2016-04-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 131657167X |
This book combines the rich, but problematic, literary tradition for early Rome with the ever-growing archaeological record to present a new interpretation of early Roman warfare and how it related to the city's various social, political, religious, and economic institutions. Largely casting aside the anachronistic assumptions of late republican writers like Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus, it instead examines the general modes of behaviour evidenced in both the literature and the archaeology for the period and attempts to reconstruct, based on these characteristics, the basic form of Roman society and then to 're-map' that on to the extant tradition. It will be important for scholars and students studying many aspects of Roman history and warfare, but particularly the history of the regal and republican periods.
Pagan Rome and the Early Christians
Title | Pagan Rome and the Early Christians PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Benko |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 1986-07-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780253203854 |
"In the early Roman empire, Christians were seen by pagans as overthrowers of ancient gods and destroyers of the prevailing social order. Allegations that Christians recognized each other by secret marks, met at night and made love to one another indiscriminately, worshipped the head of an ass and the genitals of their high priests, and ate children were widely believed. In examining these charges and the Christian response to them, Benko has provided a persuasively argued and refreshing, if controversial, perspective on the confrontation of the pagan and early Christian worlds."[book cover].
Early Rome to 290 BC
Title | Early Rome to 290 BC PDF eBook |
Author | Guy Bradley |
Publisher | Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Rome |
ISBN | 9780748621095 |
Guy Bradley examines the reasons for Rome's emergence and success within a highly competitive Italian environment, and how much it owed to its neighbours.
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Title | SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Beard |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 743 |
Release | 2015-11-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1631491253 |
New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Foreign Affairs, and Kirkus Reviews Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) Shortlisted for the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) A San Francisco Chronicle Holiday Gift Guide Selection A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection A sweeping, "magisterial" history of the Roman Empire from one of our foremost classicists shows why Rome remains "relevant to people many centuries later" (Atlantic). In SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome "with passion and without technical jargon" and demonstrates how "a slightly shabby Iron Age village" rose to become the "undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean" (Wall Street Journal). Hailed by critics as animating "the grand sweep and the intimate details that bring the distant past vividly to life" (Economist) in a way that makes "your hair stand on end" (Christian Science Monitor) and spanning nearly a thousand years of history, this "highly informative, highly readable" (Dallas Morning News) work examines not just how we think of ancient Rome but challenges the comfortable historical perspectives that have existed for centuries. With its nuanced attention to class, democratic struggles, and the lives of entire groups of people omitted from the historical narrative for centuries, SPQR will to shape our view of Roman history for decades to come.