Rome category: 2065 books
by CHARLES SEIGNOBOS
Language: French
Release Date: January 29, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: January 29, 2014
La guerre. — Le temple de Janus, à Rome, devait être ouvert aussi longtemps que le peuple romain faisait la guerre. Pendant cinq siècles, il ne fut fermé qu'une seule fois, et pour quelques années seulement ; le peuple romain vécut sans cesse en guerre et finit par soumettre tous les autres...
by Felix Dahn
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
To Cornelius Cethegus Caesarius, a Friend: I send these notes to you rather than to any other man. Why? First of all, because I know not where you are, so the missive will probably be lost. Doubtless that would be the best thing which could happen, especially for the man who would then be spared reading...
Clan Fabius, Defenders of Rome
A History of the Republic's Most Illustrious Family
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
The history of the Fabii Maximii is in many ways that of the Roman Republic. In the legends and historical scraps that survived the Republic, the members of the Fabius clan were, more often than not, the hammers that forged the empire. Few families contributed more to the survival and success of the...
Ceremony and Power
Performing Politics in Rome between Republic and Empire
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
In Ceremony and Power, Geoffrey Sumi is concerned with the relationship between political power and public ceremonial in the Roman Republic, with particular focus on the critical months following Caesar's assassination and later as Augustus became the first emperor of Rome. The book traces the use...
by Aurelius Victor
Language: French
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: September 6, 2012
3 Oeuvres de Sextus Aurelius Victor Historien latin de la Rome antique (vers 327 – vers 390) Traduction de N. A. Dubois, 1846
Ce livre numérique présente une collection de 3 Oeuvres de Sextus Aurelius Victor éditées en texte intégral. Une table des matières...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2012
*Includes famous art depicting Antony and important people, places, and events in his life. *Discusses Antony's relationships with his most famous contemporaries, including Caesar, Cleopatra, Cicero and Octavian. *Includes a Table of ContentsAnd when my own Mark AntonyAgainst young Caesar strove,And...
Les « bourgeoisies » municipales italiennes aux IIe et Ier siècles av. J.-C.
Actes du Colloque International du CNRS n. 609 (Naples 1981)
Language: French
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Les Actes de ce volume sont le résultat concret de la rencontre des travaux concomitants et complémentaires de deux équipes, l’une française, l’E.R.A. 757 du C.N.R.S., dirigée par M. Cl. Nicolet, et l’autre italienne, de l’Université de Pérouse (Institut d’Histoire, dirigé par M....
by Anthony Everitt
Language: Dutch
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Language: Dutch
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Hij trof een stad aan in baksteen en liet er een achter in marmer. Caesar Augustus (63 v.Chr. tot 14 n.Chr.) geldt als een van de invloedrijkste heersers die ooit hebben geleefd. Zijn opkomst begon met de moord op Julius Caesar zijn oudoom en adoptievader en culmineerde in het titanische gevecht met...
Augustus
Van revolutionair tot keizer van Rome
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Adrian Goldsworthy portretteert keizer Augustus in een ontwapenende biografie. Meedogenloos en menselijk. Gul en gewelddadig. Poëzieliefhebber en politicus. Keizer Augustus was een vat vol tegenstrijdigheden. Maar het opvallendst van alles is het feit dat hij naar de achtergrond van de geschiedenis...
by O. F Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Emily Beesly
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
THERE once reigned in a town called Alba in Italy a king whose name was Numitor. He had a brother called Amulius, who was a proud and wicked man, and could not bear that his elder brother should be king over him. So Amulius plotted against his brother. He got together a number of men who were as bad...
Lands, Laws, and Gods
Magistrates and Ceremony in the Regulation of Public Lands in Republican Rome
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
In Lands, Laws, and Gods, Daniel Gargola examines the formulation and implementation of laws regulating the use of public lands, including the establishment of colonies, in Republican Rome (509-27 B.C.). During this period of territorial expansion, the Romans developed the basic legal forms by which...
Emulating Alexander
How Alexander the Great's Legacy Fuelled Rome's Wars With Persia
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2017
This book gives an account of the Roman relationship with Persia and how it was shaped by the actions of Alexander the Great long before the events. Numerous Roman emperors led armies eastward against the Persians, seeking to emulate or exceed the glorious conquests of Alexander. Some achieved successes...
by Collectif
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Nell’ambito di un più generale interesse alle politiche di riforma nell’impero romano, questo volume raccoglie gli atti di un incontro di studio dedicato alla diversa reazione delle due Partes dell’impero alla crisi e ai gravi problemi che investirono il mondo romano nel periodo dalla morte...