Barbaricvm

La historia de Roma y su Imperio es una narración de sus interacciones con diversos pueblos y culturas. Desde su origen, Roma se formó mediante la unión de latinos, sabinos, etruscos y otros grupos de Italia, y mediante el contacto con griegos y fenicios. Este ...

Enemigo a las puertas

Encuentros hostiles en Grecia y Roma

La idea de que hay un enemigo a las puertas de la ciudad, preparándose ahí fuera para el asedio y el triunfo sobre los de dentro, armándose, tramando, conspirando, no es de hoy: es al menos tan antigua como el hilo conductor que engarza la ...

Fulvia

how she broke all the rules in Ancient Rome

'A thoroughly rapacious woman...as cruel as she is greedy' Cicero 'A woman who took no thought for spinning or housekeeping...meddlesome and headstrong' Plutarch '[She] caused the death of many, both to satisfy her enmity and to gain their wealth' Cassius Dio 'She acted ...

¡Hispano!. Gladiadores en el Imperio romano

Catálogo de la exposición

La realidad arqueológica de los gladiadores, en Alcalá de Henares hasta el 28 de septiembre. La nueva gran exposición temporal del MARPA, ¡Hispano! Gladiadores en el Imperio romano, descubre la verdadera historia de los gladiadores y muestra su armamento original. Esta exposición ofrece una visión ...

¡Hispano!

Gladiadores en el Imperio Romano

La realidad arqueológica de los gladiadores, en Alcalá de Henares hasta el 28 de septiembre. La nueva gran exposición temporal del MARPA, ¡Hispano! Gladiadores en el Imperio romano, descubre la verdadera historia de los gladiadores y muestra su armamento original. Esta exposición ofrece una visión ...

Juba II

L'Afrique au défi de Rome

Avec le destin de Juba II se joue celui de l'Afrique face à Rome. Il n'est encore qu'un enfant lorsque la Numidie, royaume de son père, tombe devant César. Le nouvel homme fort de l'empire le ramène, tout jeune captif, en ...

Christianity, philosophy, and Roman power

Constantine, Julian, and the bishops on exegesis and empire

This book rethinks the Christianisation of the late Roman empire as a crisis of knowledge, pointing to competitive cultural re-assessment as a major driving force in the making of the Constantinian and post-Constantinian state. Emperor Julian's writings are re-assessed as key to accessing the ...

Articulating resistance under the Roman Empire

This book explores the many strategies by which elite Greeks and Romans resisted the cultural and political hegemony of the Roman Empire in ways that avoided direct confrontation or simple warfare. By resistance is meant a range of responses including 'opposition', 'subversion', 'antagonism', 'dissent', and ...

Imagining the Roman emperor

perceptions of rulers in the high empire

How was the Roman emperor viewed by his subjects? How strongly did their perception of his role shape his behaviour? Adopting a fresh approach, Panayiotis Christoforou focuses on the emperor from the perspective of his subjects across the Roman Empire. Stress lies on the imagination ...

Making the middle Republic

new approaches to Rome and Italy, c.400-200 BCE

During the fourth and third centuries BCE, Roman expansion into Italy reshaped the peninsula's Archaic societies and prompted new political relationships, new economic practices, and new sociocultural structures. Rural landscapes and urban spaces throughout Latium saw intensified use amidst novel principles of land management ...

The politics of immorality in ancient Rome

The question this book addresses is not how immoral the ancient Romans were, but why the literature they produced is so preoccupied with immorality. The modern image of immoral Rome derives from ancient accounts which are largely critical rather than celebratory. Far from being empty ...

Embajadoras y espías

Lo sabemos por la literatura, el cine y las series de televisión: pasar de embajadora a espía es, a veces, una mera cuestión de perspectiva. Durante la República romana no fue de otra manera, ya que la fina línea que separaba el éxito del fracaso ...

Sacerdotisas

Las sacerdotisas son, para muchas sociedades modernas, figuras envueltas en un halo de exotismo y fascinación, percibidas con una mezcla de curiosidad y extrañeza. Pero ¿siempre fue así? En la Roma republicana, existieron mujeres dedicadas a servir a las divinidades en nombre de su comunidad ...

Cursus honorum

pathways to rank and power in the Roman Republic

This volume addresses a crucial issue for the political culture of the Roman Republic: competition among individuals and families of the social elite. This rivalry came to head at the annual elections of new magistrates: every year, a number of candidates ran for office and ...

The 'cursus laborum' of Roman women

social and medical aspects of the transition from puberty to motherhood

This book assesses a narrow but vital - and so far understudied - part of Roman women's lives: puberty, preparation for pregnancy, pregnancy and childbirth. Bringing together for the first time the material and textual sources for this key life stage, it describes the scientific, educational ...

Ancient Rome

facts and fictions

This book shares little-known facts from and excerpts of primary source documents to correct popular misconceptions about Ancient Rome and to show how those misconceptions became widespread. Roman personalities and history have always had a larger-than-life profile in American popular culture, but most people think ...

The falls of Rome

crises, resilience, and resurgence in late antiquity

Over the course of the fourth through seventh centuries, Rome witnessed a succession of five significant political and military crises, including the Sack of Rome, the Vandal occupation, and the demise of the Senate. Historians have traditionally considered these crises as defining events, and thus ...

The Arsacids of Rome

misunderstanding in Roman-Parthian relations

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. At the beginning of the common era, the two major imperial powers of the ancient Mediterranean and Near ...

The small stuff of Roman antiquity

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Why are the small and unimportant relics of Roman antiquity often the most enduring, in material form and ...

Ancient Roman villas

the essential sourcebook

This authoritative compendium of newly translated primary sources reveals ancient Roman attitudes on every aspect of villas, from selection of place and construction activities to day-to-day management and lived experiences. While the term villa is generic today, its meaning extended across the entirety of ancient ...