The crimes of elagabalus

the life and legacy of Rome's decadent Boy Emperor

Elagabalus is one of the most notorious of Rome's 'bad emperors': a sexually-depraved and eccentric hedonist who in his short and riotous reign made unprecedented changes to Roman state religion and defied all taboos. An oriental boy-priest from Syria - aged just fourteen when he ...

Dionisios

raíz de la vida indestructible

Ningún otro dios de los griegos se encuentra tan presente como Dionisios en los monumentos y la naturaleza de Grecia e Italia, en la tradición sensible que se ha conservado de la antigüedad. Puede hablarse de una omnipresencia del elemento dionisiaco. De las dos creaciones ...

Empires of faith

fall of Rome to the rise os Islam, 500-700

Drawing upon the latest historical and archaeological research, Dr Peter Sarris provides a panoramic account of the history of Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Near East from the fall of Rome to the rise of Islam. The formation of a new social and economic order ...

Cartas de un naviero en tiempos de Nerón

Durante el reinado del emperador Nerón, el caballero Titio Antistio Céler lega a su hijo la correspondencia que mantuvo a lo largo de los años con su amigo Sexto Terencio Hermetiano. Trabajadores ambos de una compañía naviera, en sus cartas no sólo tratan de los ...

La Muerte y el más allá en la Roma antigua

un estudio sobre textos escogidos (ss. III a.C-IV d. C)

¿Qué podría pensar el pueblo romano sobre lo que tenía que venir después de la muerte?; indudablemente partieron de los paisajes del allende de sus antiguos predecesores, los griegos, pero los confirieron un punto de vista propio. Por las líneas de este nuevo trabajo pasan ...

Roman centurions 753-31 BC

the Kingdom and the Age of Consuls

A perennially popular topic the ancient world continues to yield incredibly rich archaeological finds. Based on years of detailed research, Dr Raffaele D'Amato now presents a new history on the dress and equipment of Roman Centurions from the Roman kingdom to the height of ...

Lost Legion rediscovered

the mystery of the Theban Legion

In AD383, according to Bishop Eucherius of Lyon, flooding caused part of the bank of the River Rhone to collapse, revealing a mass grave. Eucherius identified the bodies as those of legionaries recruited to the Roman army from the Christians of the Theban district in ...

The fall of the western Roman Empire

an archaeological and historical perspective

The decline of the Roman Empire has been a subject of fascination and debate for centuries. In this original new work, Neil Christie draws on numerous sources, interweaving the latest archaeological evidence, to reconstruct the period's landscape and events. In the process, he rethinks ...

Polybius and roman imperialism

This study explores in depth the complex reaction of the Greek historian Polybius to the expansion of Roman power. Although he considered imperialism intrinsically noble, and both admired and supported Roman domination, Polybius also demonstrated a certain intellectual distance from Rome, evident in his application ...

Valorizing the barbarians

enemy speeches in roman historiography

With the growth of postcolonial theory in recent decades, scholarly views of Roman imperialism and colonialism have been evolving and shifting. Much recent discussion of the topic has centred on the ways in which ancient Roman historians consciously or unconsciously denigrated non-Romans. Similarly, contemporary scholars ...

Rethinking Ostia

a spatial enquiry into the urban society of Rome's imperial port-town

Rethinking Ostia presents an archaeological and spatial approach to Roman urbanism, focused on Rome's port city. Following a scaled approach, the book examines different aspects of Ostia's urban landscape, applying Space Syntax's methods for spatial analysis to the urban neighbourhood of one ...

Remembering the Roman People

essays on Late-Republican politics and literature

In the Roman republic, only the People could pass laws, only the People could elect politicians to office, and the very word republica meant 'the People's business'. So why is it always assumed that the republic was an oligarchy? The main reason is that ...

Resurrecting Pompeii

Resurrecting Pompeii provides an in-depth study of a unique site from antiquity with information about a population who all died from the same known cause within a short period of time. Pompeii has been continuously excavated and studied since 1748. Early scholars working in Pompeii ...

Les empereurs romains

Quels furent les stratagèmes utilisés pour instaurer un régime monarchique à Rome sous couvert d’une restauration de la République ?Comment les mécanismes de prise et de transmission du pouvoir impérial fonctionnaient-ils ?Quelles sont les causes et les modalités de la chute de l’Empire romain ?Au-delà ...

Los emperadores romanos y el sexo

Este libro es el resultado de veinte años de estudios sobremujeres romanas, sobre las fuentes que transmiten noticiassobre ellas, y también sobre los emperadores, sus amantes ysus esposas.¿Cuáles fueron los mecanismos de sucesión en el Imperio romano? ¿Qué es lo que hizo queun régimen ...

The religious history of the Roman Empire

pagans, jews, and christians

This collection of papers, many of them either published here in English for the first time or previously available only in specialist libraries, deals with the religious history of the Roman Empire. Written by leading scholars, the essays have contributed to a revolutionary change in ...

Marco Aurelio

guerrero, filósofo, emperador

Marco Aurelio, emperador de Roma desde el año 161 al 180, es una de las pocas figuras de la Antigüedad que sigue hablándonos casi dos mil años después de su muerte. Las hazañas de Alejandro Magno, Aníbal o Julio César pueden parecer impresionantes, pero la ...

Pompeii

art, industry and infraestructure

More than 250 years after its discovery, Pompeii continues to resonate powerfully in both academic discourse and the popular imagination. This volume brings together a collection of ten papers that advance, challenge and revise the present conceptions of the city's art, industry and infrastructure ...

Roma

auge y caída de un imperio

Esta es la historia del mayor imperio que el mundo ha conocido. Desde la conquista del Mediterráneo iniciada en el siglo III hasta la destrucción de Roma en manos de los invasores bárbaros siete siglos más tarde.

El ejército romano en campaña

de Septimio Severo a Diocleciano (193-305 d.C.)

Esta monografía pretende constituir una puesta al día del estudio sobre los métodos de combate del ejército romano durante el turbulento período que se extiende  desde el comienzo del reinado de Septimio Severo (193 d.C.) hasta el final de la primera Tetrarquía (305 d ...