Author: William Wolfe CapesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rome
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Following Hadrian
Author: Elizabeth SpellerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195176131
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
One of the greatest - and most enigmatic - Roman emperors, Hadrian stabilized the imperial borders, established peace throughout the empire, patronized the arts, and built an architectural legacy that lasts to this day: the great villa at Tivoli, the domed wonder of the Pantheon, and the eponymous wall that stretches across Britain. Yet the story of his reign is also a tale of intrigue, domestic discord, and murder. In Following Hadrian, Elizabeth Speller illuminates the fascinating life of Hadrian, rule of the most powerful empire on earth at the peak of its glory. Speller displays a superb gift for narrative as she traces the intrigue of Hadrian's rise, making brilliant use of her sources and vividly depicting Hadrian's bouts of melancholy, his intellectual passions, his love for a beautiful boy (whose death sent him into a spiral), and the paradox of his general policies of peace and religious tolerance even as he conducted a bitter, three-year war with Judea. Most important, the author captures the emperor as both a builder and an inveterate traveler, guiding readers on a grand tour of the Roman Empire at the moment of its greatest extent and accomplishment.
Roman Empire of the Second Century
Author: William Wolfe CapesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rome
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Following Hadrian
Author: Elizabeth SpellerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199771863
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
One of the greatest--and most enigmatic--Roman emperors, Hadrian stabilized the imperial borders, established peace throughout the empire, patronized the arts, and built an architectural legacy that lasts to this day: the great villa at Tivoli, the domed wonder of the Pantheon, and the eponymous wall that stretches across Britain. Yet the story of his reign is also a tale of intrigue, domestic discord, and murder. In Following Hadrian, Elizabeth Speller captures the fascinating life of Hadrian, ruler of the most powerful empire on earth at the peak of its glory. Speller displays a superb gift for narrative as she traces the intrigue of Hadrian's rise: his calculated marriage to Emperor Trajan's closest female relative, a woman he privately tormented; Trajan's suspicious deathbed adoption of Hadrian as his heir, a stroke some thought to be a post-mortem forgery; and the ensuing slaughter of potential rivals by an ally of Hadrian's. Speller makes brilliant use of her sources, vividly depicting Hadrian's bouts of melancholy, his intellectual passions, his love for a beautiful boy (whose death sent him into a spiral), and the paradox of his general policies of peace and religious tolerance even as he conducted a bitter, three-year war with Judea. Most important, the author captures the emperor as both a builder and an inveterate traveler, guiding readers on a grand tour of the Roman Empire at the moment of its greatest extent and accomplishment, from the barren, windswept frontiers of Britain to the teeming streets of Antioch, from the dangers of the German forest to the urban splendor of Rome itself.
The Roman Empire of the Second Century
Author: William Wolfe CapesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rome
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Roman Empire of the Second Century, Or, The Age of the Antonines
Author: William Wolfe CapesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rome
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Roman Empire of the Second Century
Author: William Wolfe CapesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rome
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The Roman Empire from Severus to Constantine
Author: Pat SouthernPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134553811
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
It might have been thought that the Roman Empire should have collapsed in the 260s - yet it did not. Pat Southern shows how this was possible by providing a chronological history from the end of the second century to the beginning of the fourth.
The Roman Empire of the Second Century Or the Age of the Antonines
Author: William Wolfe CapesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rome
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The Army of the Roman Republic
Author: Mike DobsonPublisher: Oxbow Books Limited
ISBN: 9781842172414
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The main source of archaeological evidence for Late Roman Republican camps is a complex of installations around the Iberian city of Numantia in Spain, excavated by Adolf Schulten in the early 1900s. This book reassesses Schulten and concludes that much of his interpretation is questionable. Radically different alternative reconstructions making use of recent fieldwork are presented for several of the sites. A discussion of dating evidence leads to alternative dates being offered for some of the camps. To aid interpreting the sites, army organization and art of encampment for the period of the Numantine Wars is discussed. This study gives added importance to the sites at Numantia, for they not only form the main source of archaeological evidence for Late Republican camps, but provide evidence for the form of camp for both the late manipular army and the early cohort one.
The Roman World 44 BC–AD 180
Author: Martin GoodmanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134943857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Goodman presents a lucid and balanced picture of the Roman world examining the Roman empire from a variety of perspectives; cultural, political, civic, social and religious.