Rome category: 2065 books

George Rendall's The Emperor Julian, Paganism and Christianity is a fascinating biography of one of Rome's most infamous emperors.

In Incidental Archaeologists, Bonnie Effros examines the archaeological contributions of nineteenth-century French military officers, who, raised on classical accounts of warfare and often trained as cartographers, developed an interest in the Roman remains they encountered when commissioned in the...

This textbook supports the specification for AS and A-Level Ancient History (first teaching September 2017). It covers the whole of Component 2, both the compulsory Period Study and the three optional Depth Studies: Period Study: The Julio-Claudian Emperors, 31 BC–AD 68 by Robert Cromarty...

I. Rome fut d’abord soumise à des rois. L. Brutus fonda la liberté et le consulat. Les dictatures étaient passagères ; le pouvoir décemviral ne dura pas au delà de deux années, et les tribuns militaires se maintinrent peu de temps à la place des consuls. La domination de Cinna, celle de...

Tacite (en latin Publius Cornelius Tacitus) est un historien et sénateur romain né en 58 et mort vers 120 ap. J.-C. Extrait : Je commencerai mon ouvrage au deuxième consulat de Servius Galba, qui eut pour collègue T. Vinius. Les huit cent vingt ans écoulés depuis la fondation...

About the book An understanding of the book of Daniel is essential for at least three reasons: 1) For obtaining an outline of the five world empires of Babylon, Media-Persia, Greece, Rome, and that of God, which come on the scene on earth in human history; 2) in order to be able to properly interpret...

With the growth of postcolonial theory in recent decades, scholarly views of Roman imperialism and colonialism have been evolving and shifting. Much recent discussion of the topic has centered on the ways in which ancient Roman historians consciously or unconsciously denigrated non-Romans. Similarly,...

Tacitus' Annals is the central historical source for first-century C.E. Rome. It is prized by historians since it provides the best narrative material for the reigns of Tiberius, Claudius, and Nero, as well as a probing analysis of the imperial system of government. But the Annals should be seen as...

Arthur Weigall's The Life and Times of Marc Antony is a readable history of one of Rome's most famous leaders.

"Son of Mars" launches on the Ides of March! Before Julius Caesar ruled Rome, his uncle Gaius Marius was the most powerful man in the eternal city. Once a provincial nobody with a ruined family, Marius only had one way to power: the sword. Years later, he writes to his protege Quintus...

When Donald Trump boasts of his billions while claiming to be a good Christian, he’s not thinking of Jesus. Jesus damned the rich: “it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven.” Jesus told the rich man to sell all his possessions and give the...

Eager to be Roman is an important investigation into the ways in which the population of Pontus et Bithynia, a Greek province in the northwestern part of Asia Minor (on the southern shore of the Black Sea), engaged culturally with the Roman Empire. Scholars have long presented Greek provincials as...

Vers l’an sept cent vingt-deux de la fondation de la ville, on reprit, à Rome, l’usage d’obéir entièrement à  un seul chef. Octavien, fils d’Octavius, et adopté par César, son grand-oncle ; Octavien, qu’un sénatus-consulte surnomma...

Antoine est fasciné par les fastes de l'Orient que lui laisse miroiter la belle Cléopâtre, souveraine d'Egypte, qui règne sur les terres les plus fertiles du bassin méditerranéen. Leur rencontre diplomatique se transforme en une passion amoureuse qui déterminera...