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Author: Suetonius Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521596763 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 286
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Suetonius' biography is a rich offering of both solid fact and the prejudicial anecdotes that his contemporaries and the generation that followed thought worth repeating, raw material for exploring the man and his reign. This commentary provides context for the text's abundant information, but form is not neglected, and attention is given to Suetonius' intelligent and conscious marshalling of his material, and guidance offered to students reading the biographer's often densely compressed style.
Author: Suetonius Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521596763 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 286
Book Description
Suetonius' biography is a rich offering of both solid fact and the prejudicial anecdotes that his contemporaries and the generation that followed thought worth repeating, raw material for exploring the man and his reign. This commentary provides context for the text's abundant information, but form is not neglected, and attention is given to Suetonius' intelligent and conscious marshalling of his material, and guidance offered to students reading the biographer's often densely compressed style.
Author: Duncan Fishwick Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9789004125360 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 282
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This original study is the first attempt to piece together an overall picture of the origins and historical development of provincial cults in the Latin west in the period from the reign of Augustus down to the mid third century A.D.
Author: Barbara Levick Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 9780300058314 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 292
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Traces the life of the Roman Emperor, reassesses his life and achievements, and describes the political, economic and social background of the period
Author: Gwynaeth McIntyre Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004398376 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 94
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This article surveys the range of ancient literary sources and modern scholarly debates on how individuals became gods in the Roman world and the practices classified under the modern collective heading ‘imperial cult’.
Author: Verity Anthony Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1784915955 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 338
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The remarkable discovery of the Beau Street Hoard captured the public imagination and became the focus for a major scientific investigation and a significant learning and public engagement programme. This book provides a thorough and complete publication and analysis of the hoard, which is one of the largest yet found in a Roman town in Britain.
Author: Duncan Fishwick Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351219642 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 387
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The papers assembled in this selection of studies range in subject matter from early Judaic magic to an inscribed monument of the Neo-Classical period. The principal emphasis of the collection is nevertheless on religious developments under the High Roman Empire: problems arising from the interpretation of oriental cults imported from the Hellenistic East but primarily the development of imperial cult, the one universal religion of the empire before the coming of Christianity. The essays divide into five categories: Divinity and Power; The Imperial Numen; The Imperial Cult: Review and Discussion; Rituals and Ceremonies; Ainigmata. The titles of the individual articles speak for themselves but readers may also find the preface of interest in so far as it sets out the author's ideas on the controversial nature of the emperor's divinity. While this is a topic deserving of a book in its own right, the preface together with the points raised by individual studies within the overall framework may go some way to repairing this defficiency.
Author: Maggie L. Popkin Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107103576 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 297
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This book offers the first critical study of the architecture of the Roman triumph, ancient Rome's most important victory ritual. Through case studies ranging from the republican to imperial periods, it demonstrates how powerfully monuments shaped how Romans performed, experienced, and remembered triumphs and, consequently, how Romans conceived of an urban identity for their city. Monuments highlighted Roman conquests of foreign peoples, enabled Romans to envision future triumphs, made triumphs more memorable through emotional arousal of spectators, and even generated distorted memories of triumphs that might never have occurred. This book illustrates the far-reaching impact of the architecture of the triumph on how Romans thought about this ritual and, ultimately, their own place within the Mediterranean world. In doing so, it offers a new model for historicizing the interrelations between monuments, individual and shared memory, and collective identities.
Author: Kevin Butcher Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1316060896 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 841
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The fineness of Roman imperial and provincial coinage has been regarded as an indicator of the broader fiscal health of the Roman Empire, with the apparent gradual decline of the silver content being treated as evidence for worsening deficits and the contraction of the supply of natural resources from which the coins were made. This book explores the composition of Roman silver coinage of the first century AD, re-examining traditional interpretations in the light of an entirely new programme of analyses of the coins, which illustrates the inadequacy of many earlier analytical projects. It provides new evidence for the supply of materials and refining and minting technology. It can even pinpoint likely episodes of recycling old coins and, when combined with the study of hoards, hints at possible strategies of stockpiling of metal. The creation of reserves bears directly on the question of the adequacy of revenues and fiscal health.
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