Rome category: 2065 books
by Tansy Rayner Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
Thousands of years ago, Julia Agrippina wrote the true history of her family, the Caesars. The document was lost, or destroyed, almost immediately. (It included more monsters than you might think.)
Hundreds of years ago, Fanny and Mary ran away from London with a debauched poet and his sister....
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
The Romans were not only creative when it comes to building infrastructures, fashion and art. They were also pretty creative when it comes to entertainment. Unfortunately, their creativity in this area is a lot more than anyone today can handle. There raised gladiators who would fight to death. Slaves...
In Defence of Christianity
Early Christian Apologists
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
In Defence of Christianity examines the early Christian apologists in their context in thirteen articles divided in four parts. Part I provides an introduction to apology and apologetics in antiquity, an overview of the early Christian apologists, and an outline of their argumentation. The nine articles...
Latin Verse Satire
An Anthology and Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
A wide variety of texts by the Latin satirists are presented here in a fully loaded resource to provide an innovative reading of satire's relation to Roman ideology.
Brimming with notes, commentaries, essays and texts in translation, this book succeeds in its mission to help the student understand...
War as Spectacle
Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Display of Armed Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
War as Spectacle examines the display of armed conflict in classical antiquity and its impact in the modern world. The contributors address the following questions: how and why was war conceptualized as a spectacle in our surviving ancient Greek and Latin sources? How has this view of war been adapted...
The Empire of the Self
Self-Command and Political Speech in Seneca and Petronius
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In The Empire of the Self, Christopher Star studies the question of how political reality affects the concepts of body, soul, and self. Star argues that during the early Roman Empire the establishment of autocracy and the development of a universal ideal of individual autonomy were mutually enhancing...
by Tacitus
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (c. AD 56 after 117) was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works—the Annals and the Histories—examine the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero, and those who...
by Mary Beard
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
One of the world’s leading historians provides a revolutionary tour of the Ancient World, dusting off the classics for the twenty-first century.
Mary Beard, drawing on thirty years of teaching and writing about Greek and Roman history, provides a panoramic portrait of the classical world,...
Roman Homosexuality
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Ten years after its original publication, Roman Homosexuality remains the definitive statement of this interesting but often misunderstood aspect of Roman culture. Learned yet accessible, the book has reached both students and general readers with an interest in ancient sexuality. This second edition...
New Worlds from Old Texts
Revisiting Ancient Space and Place
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Maps dominate the modern sense of place and geography. Yet, so far as we can tell, maps were rare in the Greco-Roman world and, when mentioned in sources, are mistrusted and criticized. Today, technological advances have brought to the fore an entirely new set of methods for representing and interacting...
Fortuna
Deity and Concept in Archaic and Republican Italy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
What is good luck and what did it mean to the Romans? What connections were there between luck and childbirth, victory in war, or success in business? What did Roman statesmen like Cicero and Caesar think about luck? This volume aims to address these questions by focusing on the Latin goddess Fortuna,...
OCR Classical Civilisation A Level Components 32 and 33
Love and Relationships and Politics of the Late Republic
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for A-Level Classical Civilisation (first teaching September 2017). It covers Components 32 and 33 from the 'Beliefs and Ideas' Component Group:
Love and Relationships by Matthew Barr and Alastair Thorley
Politics of the Late Republic...
by Daniel P Mannix
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
During five centuries of popularity, the Roman games, or ludi, started out as celebrations no more heinous than the average neighborhood carnival and grew into a spectacles of pointless massacre that slaughtered thousands of people and animals every month. The games were so popular that they...
Legion versus Phalanx
The Epic Struggle for Infantry Supremacy in the Ancient World
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
From the time of Ancient Sumeria, the heavy infantry phalanx dominated the battlefield. Armed with spears or pikes, standing shoulder to shoulder with shields interlocking, the men of the phalanx presented an impenetrable wall of wood and metal to the enemy. Until, that is, the Roman legion emerged...