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Cover of The World of Ancient Rome: A Daily Life Encyclopedia [2 volumes]
by James W. Ermatinger
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015

This study of Ancient Rome offers a fascinating glimpse of what Roman society was like—from fashion, to food, to politics and recreation—gathered from literary works, art, and archaeological remains. • Focuses on daily life rather than dates and wars, making for engaging content for all...
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Sabina Augusta

An Imperial Journey

by T. Corey Brennan
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018

Sabina Augusta (ca. 85-ca. 137), wife of the emperor Hadrian (reigned 117-38), accumulated more public honors in Rome and the provinces than any imperial woman had enjoyed since the first empress, Augustus' wife Livia. Indeed, Sabina is the first woman whose image features on a regular and continuous...
Cover of Lives of the Romans
by Joanne Berry, Philip Matyszak
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2008

One hundred biographies reveal the mightiest civilization of the ancient world through the lives of its citizens. At its peak Rome's empire stretched across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, yet it started as a primitive encampment above a riverside marsh. This book spans the great chronological...
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Globalizing Roman Culture

Unity, Diversity and Empire

by Richard Hingley
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2005

Richard Hingley here asks the questions: What is Romanization? Was Rome the first global culture? Romanization has been represented as a simple progression from barbarism to civilization. Roman forms in architecture, coinage, language and literature came to dominate the world from Britain to...
Cover of Ancient Rome
by William E. Dunstan
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010

Ancient Rome masterfully synthesizes the vast period from the second millennium BCE to the sixth century CE, carrying readers through the succession of fateful steps and agonizing crises that marked Roman evolution from an early village settlement to the capital of an extraordinary realm extending...
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The Shape of the Roman Order

The Republic and Its Spaces

by Daniel J. Gargola
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017

In recent years, a long-established view of the Roman Empire during its great age of expansion has been called into question by scholars who contend that this model has made Rome appear too much like a modern state. This is especially true in terms of understanding how the Roman government ordered...
Cover of The Story of Greece and Rome
by Tony Spawforth
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018

The extraordinary story of the intermingled civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, spanning more than six millennia from the late Bronze Age to the seventh century The magnificent civilization created by the ancient Greeks and Romans is the greatest legacy of the classical world. However,...
Cover of Near Eastern Royalty and Rome, 100-30 Bc
by Richard D. Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1990

During the first century BC, the Near and Middle Easy saw a great transition from the Seleucid and Ptolemaic Empires, by way of the brief Pontic and Armenian Empires, to the triumphant Parthian and Roman Empires. Richard D. Sullivan offers a guide to the central role of royalty during this period....
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The Etruscans

9th–2nd Centuries BC

by Andrea Salimbeti, Dr Raffaele D’Amato
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018

Ancient Rome had deep roots in the 'Villanovan' culture that we call today the Etruscans. Their long-lived civilization can be traced to 900–750 BC in north-west Italy. They were a sea-faring people trading with and competing against Greek and Phoenician peoples, including the Carthaginians. They...
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Rome at War

Farms, Families, and Death in the Middle Republic

by Nathan Rosenstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005

Historians have long asserted that during and after the Hannibalic War, the Roman Republic's need to conscript men for long-term military service helped bring about the demise of Italy's small farms and that the misery of impoverished citizens then became fuel for the social and political conflagrations...
Cover of The Worlds Famous Orations: Volume II, Rome (218 B.C.-84 A.D.) (Illustrated Edition)
by William Jennings Bryan
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012

William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 July 26, 1925) was a tour de force in American politics around the end of the 19th century. Bryan had a long, distinguished career in politics as a liberal in the Democratic Party, including serving as Secretary of State and presidential candidate. He advocated...
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Selections from Virgil Aeneid VIII

An Edition for Intermediate Students

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Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019

This is the first intermediate-student edition of a selection from Virgil's Aeneid VIII. Lines 86–279 and 558–584 are included as Latin text with an accompanying commentary and vocabulary. Focusing on a deliberately concise extract from the original, this edition is designed to be manageable for...
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Rome in the Pyrenees

Lugdunum and the Convenae from the first century B.C. to the seventh century A.D.

by Simon Esmonde Cleary
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007

Written by an acknowledged authority on this period and region, this is the first full-length book published in English on a Roman-Gallic town. Drawing from the extensive excavation that he has carried out on the site for many years, Simon Esmonde-Cleary presents this historical and archaeological...
Cover of Ancient Rome
by Evelyn Shuckburgh
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016

                To write the history of a great people during a course of more than seven hundred years in about as many pages is a task of which the difficulty, best appreciated by those who have attempted it, may not unfairly plead for leniency of construction. No one can be more conscious...
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