Rome category: 2065 books

Every attempted delineation of the manners and customs of Imperial Rome must necessarily include a survey, as exhaustive as may be, of the spectacles, as the best measure of her grandeur, and as indicative in many ways of her moral and intellectual condition. Originally, for the most part,...

SOME men are renowned in history on account of the extraordinary powers and capacities which they exhibited in the course of their career, or the intrinsic greatness of the deeds which they performed. Others, without having really achieved any thing in itself very great or wonderful, have become widely...

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I EXTENT AND SECURITY OF THE EMPIRE II TRAVEL WITHIN THE EMPIRE III A BRIEF SURVEY OF THE PROVINCES IV THE IMPERIAL SYSTEM: EMPEROR, SENATE, KNIGHTS, AND PEOPLE V NERO THE EMPEROR VI ADMINISTRATION AND TAXATION OF THE EMPIRE VII ROME: THE IMPERIAL CITY VIII STREETS, WATER-SUPPLY,...

THE present series of lectures is designed to give a broad and general view of the long sequence of the migratory movements of the northern barbarians which began in the third and fourth centuries A.D. and cannot be said to have terminated till the ninth. This long process shaped Europe into its present...

Gaius Caligula reigned for four short years from 37 to 41 CE before his infamous tenure came to a violent end. While much has been written about Caligula’s notorious excesses and court life, relatively little of his military and foreign policy has been seriously studied. This is a military...

The life of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, generally known to the world as Heliogabalus, is as yet shrouded in impenetrable mystery. The picture we have of the reign is that of an imperial orgy - sacrilegious, necromantic, and obscene. The boy Emperor, who reigned from his fourteenth to his...

'The Twelve Caesars' is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. The work, written in AD 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, was the most popular work of Suetonius—at that time Hadrian's personal secretary—and...

Called "Geimer" in it's original German, this novel of the fall of the Vandal Kingdom in Africa is a very dramatic story, with all the contrasts which make for the popularity of stories of the decadent Roman period. In essence it is a tragedy of tragedies, the bloody destruction of the whole...

This is the first intermediate-student edition of a selection from Tacitus Histories I. Sections 4 (finis Neronis ...) to 7, 12–14, 17–23, 26–36, 39–44 and 49 are included as Latin text with an accompanying commentary and vocabulary. Focusing on a deliberately concise extract from the original,...

Extrait : 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 bientôt Auguste, cause de sa clémence...

Apparu sans doute à la fin du IIe s. av. J.-C. dans les Apennins centraux et connu à Rome dès 179 av. J.-C., avec un chevalier adjudicataire de travaux sur le Capitole, l'anthroponyme Aufidius s'est progressivement et abondamment diffusé, de la fin de la République au Haut-Empire romain, au point...

Robert Turcan, de l’Institut, ancien membre de l’École française de Rome, a consacré plusieurs ouvrages aux empereurs qui ont marqué l’histoire : Hadrien, Marc Aurèle, Héliogabale, Constantin. Avec Tibère, c’est le type même d’un prétendu tyran sanguinaire qui est concerné. Nos études...

Un empereur méconnu et controversé, le dernier "grand" de la Rome Antique replacé dans son contexte et sa vérité. Théodose, qui régna de 379 à 395, présente la particularité d'être le premier empereur romain baptisé dans le catholicisme. La postérité a surtout retenu...

Histories of Rome emphasize the ways the empire assimilated conquered societies, bringing civilization to “barbarians.” Yet these interpretations leave us with an incomplete understanding of the diverse cultures that flourished in the provinces. Andrew C. Johnston recaptures the identities, memories, and discourses of these variegated societies.