Roman Social History
Title | Roman Social History PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Parkin |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 393 |
Release | 2007-10-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134091249 |
This Sourcebook contains a comprehensive collection of sources on the topic of the social history of the Roman world during the late Republic and the first two centuries AD. Designed to form the basis for courses in Roman social history, this excellent resource covers original translations from sources such as inscriptions, papyri, and legal texts. Topics include: social inequality and class games, gladiators and attitudes to violence the role of slaves in Roman society economy and taxation the Roman legal system the Roman family and gender roles. Including extensive explanatory notes, maps and bibliographies, this Sourcebook is the ideal resource for all students and teachers embarking on a course in Roman social history.
War and Society in the Roman World
Title | War and Society in the Roman World PDF eBook |
Author | Dr John Rich |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2002-09-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134919913 |
This volume focuses on the changing relationship between warfare and the Roman citizen body, from the Republic, when war was at the heart of Roman life, through to the Principate, when it was confined to professional soldiers and expansion largely ceased, and finally on to the Late Empire and the Roman army's eventual failure.
Auriacus, Sive Libertas Saucia
Title | Auriacus, Sive Libertas Saucia PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Heinsius |
Publisher | Drama and Theatre in Early Mod |
Pages | 584 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9789004410220 |
"This is an edition of the Latin text of Daniel Heinsius' Latin tragedy Auriacus, sive Libertas saucia (Orange, or Liberty Wounded, 1602), with an introduction, a translation and a commentary. Auriacus was Heinsius' history drama, with which he wished to bring Dutch drama to the level of antiquity"--
Atlas of Classical History
Title | Atlas of Classical History PDF eBook |
Author | Richard J.A. Talbert |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2002-09-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134966539 |
From the Bronze Age to the reign of Constantine, the Atlas of Classical History provides a comprehensive series of maps, diagrams, and commentary designed to meet the needs of classical scholars, as well as general readers. Over 135 maps of the Greek and Roman worlds clearly mark the political affiliations of the cities and states, major military events, trade routes, artistic, cultural and industrial centers, and colonization and exploration.
Suetonius: Vespasian
Title | Suetonius: Vespasian PDF eBook |
Author | Suetonius |
Publisher | Bristol Classical Press |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2000-09-21 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
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The emperor Vespasian (AD69-79) is universally regarded as one of the better Roman emperors. This edition of Suetonius' biography (the first since 1930) offers a newly revised text with a general introduction and detailed commentary.
A Companion to Greek Tragedy
Title | A Companion to Greek Tragedy PDF eBook |
Author | Justina Gregory |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 576 |
Release | 2008-04-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1405152052 |
The Blackwell Companion to Greek Tragedy provides readers with a fundamental grounding in Greek tragedy, and also introduces them to the various methodologies and the lively critical dialogue that characterize the study of Greek tragedy today. Comprises 31 original essays by an international cast of contributors, including up-and-coming as well as distinguished senior scholars Pays attention to socio-political, textual, and performance aspects of Greek tragedy All ancient Greek is transliterated and translated, and technical terms are explained as they appear Includes suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter, and a generous and informative combined bibliography
Parmenides and Empedocles
Title | Parmenides and Empedocles PDF eBook |
Author | Parmenides, |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Pages | 78 |
Release | 2011-03-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1725229609 |
Parmenides and Empedocles, along with Heraclitus the most important of the pre-Socratic philosophers, were at the same time among the greatest poets of the ancient world. But their work is rarely treated and still more rarely translated in its original form--as poetry. The complete extant fragments of Parmenides and Empedocles are collected here for the first time in a translation responsive to the original verse texts. Parmenides' philosophical fragments are here given as the poetic remains of the thinker from Elea in Southern Italy whom Socrates wondered at and Plato held in awe. What emerges from the poetry is at once an uncompromising vision of absolute Being and a compassionate understanding of the human cosmos: It is the body grows to Mind. All men desire the same thing, apprehend the same The plenum is thought, and thought preponderates. The poetry of Empedocles--reincarnationist, naturalist, cosmologist, religious leader, physiologist, and a metaphysician--is presented here in the personal idiom of the fifth-century Sicilian who has been called the last of the Greek shamans: I have already been A bush and a bird A boy and a girl A mute fish in the sea.