The battle that stopped Rome

Emperor Augustus, arminius, and the slaughter of the legions in the Teutoburg forest

Ancient Rome

a military and political history

Roman imperialism

readings and sources

Emperor worship and roman religion

This is the first study of emperor worship among the Romans themselves, in Rome and its heartland Italy. It argues that emperor worship was indeed perfectly in keeping with Roman religious tradition, which has been generally misunderstood by a posterity imbued with radically different notions ...

Semanas de estudios romanos

Spectacular power in the Greek and Roman city

In the great cities of Greece and Rome, politicians and kings sought to be seen as celebrities. They tried to appear wondrous and exciting to citizens and subjects. This study shows some of their methods and so reveals the importance of political advertisement and spectacle ...

Diocletian and the tetrarchy

This book aims to make accessible the sources and controversies concerning a key period in the history of the Roman Empire # the reign of Diocletian and its immediate aftermath. Diocletian was an emperor of unusual ambition, and his reign saw considerable military success, an experiment ...

The greco-roman East

politics, culture, society

This collection of papers illustrates how our picture of the Greco-Roman East has changed over the last two decades as a result of new finds, new methods, and new interests on the part of classical scholars. The chapters, by a distinguished international cast of contributors ...

Hannibal

a history of the art of war among the carthaginians and romans down to the Battle of Pydna, 168 b.c. with a detailed account of the Second Punic War

Hannibal is often called the finest general the world has ever known. Setting out from Carthaginian-dominated Spain with a small army of select troops, he fought his way over the Pyrenees and crossed the Alps with elephants and a full baggage train. Theodore Dodge retraced ...

Rome, the greek world, and the East

Vol. 2: Govermment, society, and culture in the Roman Empire

Fergus Millar is one of the most influential contemporary historians of the ancient world. His essays and books, above all The Emperor in the Roman World and The Roman Near East, have transformed our understanding of the communal culture and civil government of the Greco-Roman ...

El mundo de los Césares

El mundo de los Césares. Magna charta imperii romani, es un documento etnográfico y político, económico y cultural de primer orden, es un arsenal precioso de datos para el estudio de la historia medieval y moderna de los pueblos europeos y de los pueblos asiáticos ...

Julio César

el proceso clásico de la concentración del poder

Este trabajo está considerado por muchos expertos como la biografía más completa, atrayente y rigurosa de Julio César, una de las figuras con más influencia en la historia de Roma y en la universal. El libro comienza en el momento histórico de la liquidación senatorial ...

Historia agraria romana

«Las investigaciones que dan contenido a este libro se centran en distintos fenómenos del derecho romano, público y privado, desde un punto de vista específico: el de su importancia práctica para el desarrollo de las relaciones agrarias.» Aplicando el método experimental a su trabajo, Weber ...

El auriga de Hispania

Gayo Apuleyo Diocles, uno de los aurigas más famosos, pierde la memoria como consecuencia de un asalto, que poco a poco se descubre que responde a una conspiración a través de la manipulación en las carreras. Las autoridades le pedirán su colaboración para contrarrestar este ...

Los romanos

libro desplegable

Libro desplegable.

Historia de Roma

El presente libro alterna la narración predominantemente cronológica de la evolución histórica de Roma y de la civilización imperial con otros estudios dedicados a la economía, el orden social, la administración, la religión o las mentalidades. De este modo, el lector podrá obtener una visión ...

V mesa redonda internacional sobre Lusitania romana

las comunicaciones: Cáceres, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras 7,8 y 9 de Noviembre de 2002

Romanizzazione e moneta

la testimonianza dei rinvenimenti dall'Emilia Romagna

Visiones mítico-religiosas del padre en la Antigüedad Clásica

Late roman Spain and its cities

Michael Kulikowski draws on the most recent archeological and literary evidence to integrate late antique Spain into the broader history of the Roman empire, crafting a definitive narrative and analytical account of the Iberian peninsula from the end of the third century to the beginning ...