Author: Catalina Balmaceda
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469635135
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The political transformation that took place at the end of the Roman Republic was a particularly rich area for analysis by the era's historians. Major narrators chronicled the crisis that saw the end of the Roman Republic and the changes that gave birth to a new political system. These writers drew significantly on the Roman idea of virtus as a way of interpreting and understanding their past. Tracing how virtus informed Roman thought over time, Catalina Balmaceda explores the concept and its manifestations in the narratives of four successive Latin historians who span the late Republic and early Principate: Sallust, Livy, Velleius, and Tacitus. Balmaceda demonstrates that virtus in these historical narratives served as a form of self-definition that fostered and propagated a new model of the ideal Roman more fitting to imperial times. As a crucial moral and political concept, virtus worked as a key idea in the complex system of Roman sociocultural values and norms that underpinned Roman attitudes about both present and past. This book offers a reappraisal of the historians as promoters of change and continuity in the political culture of both the Republic and the Empire.
Virtus Romana
Author: Catalina Balmaceda
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469635135
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The political transformation that took place at the end of the Roman Republic was a particularly rich area for analysis by the era's historians. Major narrators chronicled the crisis that saw the end of the Roman Republic and the changes that gave birth to a new political system. These writers drew significantly on the Roman idea of virtus as a way of interpreting and understanding their past. Tracing how virtus informed Roman thought over time, Catalina Balmaceda explores the concept and its manifestations in the narratives of four successive Latin historians who span the late Republic and early Principate: Sallust, Livy, Velleius, and Tacitus. Balmaceda demonstrates that virtus in these historical narratives served as a form of self-definition that fostered and propagated a new model of the ideal Roman more fitting to imperial times. As a crucial moral and political concept, virtus worked as a key idea in the complex system of Roman sociocultural values and norms that underpinned Roman attitudes about both present and past. This book offers a reappraisal of the historians as promoters of change and continuity in the political culture of both the Republic and the Empire.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469635135
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The political transformation that took place at the end of the Roman Republic was a particularly rich area for analysis by the era's historians. Major narrators chronicled the crisis that saw the end of the Roman Republic and the changes that gave birth to a new political system. These writers drew significantly on the Roman idea of virtus as a way of interpreting and understanding their past. Tracing how virtus informed Roman thought over time, Catalina Balmaceda explores the concept and its manifestations in the narratives of four successive Latin historians who span the late Republic and early Principate: Sallust, Livy, Velleius, and Tacitus. Balmaceda demonstrates that virtus in these historical narratives served as a form of self-definition that fostered and propagated a new model of the ideal Roman more fitting to imperial times. As a crucial moral and political concept, virtus worked as a key idea in the complex system of Roman sociocultural values and norms that underpinned Roman attitudes about both present and past. This book offers a reappraisal of the historians as promoters of change and continuity in the political culture of both the Republic and the Empire.
A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic
Author: Valentina Arena
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444339656
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
An insightful and original exploration of Roman Republic politics In A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic, editors Valentina Arena and Jonathan Prag deliver an incisive and original collection of forty contributions from leading academics representing various intellectual and academic traditions. The collected works represent some of the best scholarship in recent decades and adopt a variety of approaches, each of which confronts major problems in the field and contributes to ongoing research. The book represents a new, updated, and comprehensive view of the political world of Republican Rome and some of the included essays are available in English for the first time. Divided into six parts, the discussions consider the institutionalized loci, political actors, and values, rituals, and discourse that characterized Republican Rome. The Companion also offers several case studies and sections on the history of the interpretation of political life in the Roman Republic. Key features include: A thorough introduction to the Roman political world as seen through the wider lenses of Roman political culture Comprehensive explorations of the fundamental components of Roman political culture, including ideas and values, civic and religious rituals, myths, and communicative strategies Practical discussions of Roman Republic institutions, both with reference to their formal rules and prescriptions, and as patterns of social organization In depth examinations of the 'afterlife' of the Roman Republic, both in ancient authors and in early modern and modern times Perfect for students of all levels of the ancient world, A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic will also earn a place in the libraries of scholars and students of politics, political history, and the history of ideas.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444339656
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
An insightful and original exploration of Roman Republic politics In A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic, editors Valentina Arena and Jonathan Prag deliver an incisive and original collection of forty contributions from leading academics representing various intellectual and academic traditions. The collected works represent some of the best scholarship in recent decades and adopt a variety of approaches, each of which confronts major problems in the field and contributes to ongoing research. The book represents a new, updated, and comprehensive view of the political world of Republican Rome and some of the included essays are available in English for the first time. Divided into six parts, the discussions consider the institutionalized loci, political actors, and values, rituals, and discourse that characterized Republican Rome. The Companion also offers several case studies and sections on the history of the interpretation of political life in the Roman Republic. Key features include: A thorough introduction to the Roman political world as seen through the wider lenses of Roman political culture Comprehensive explorations of the fundamental components of Roman political culture, including ideas and values, civic and religious rituals, myths, and communicative strategies Practical discussions of Roman Republic institutions, both with reference to their formal rules and prescriptions, and as patterns of social organization In depth examinations of the 'afterlife' of the Roman Republic, both in ancient authors and in early modern and modern times Perfect for students of all levels of the ancient world, A Companion to the Political Culture of the Roman Republic will also earn a place in the libraries of scholars and students of politics, political history, and the history of ideas.
Roman Manliness
Author: Myles McDonnell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521827884
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Publisher Description
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521827884
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Publisher Description
The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome
Author: Catharine Edwards
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521893893
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The decadence and depravity of the ancient Romans are a commonplace of serious history, popular novels and spectacular films. This book is concerned not with the question of 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. Upper-class Romans habitually accused one another of the most lurid sexual and sumptuary improprieties. Historians and moralists lamented the vices of their contemporaries and mourned for the virtues of a vanished age. Far from being empty commonplaces these assertions constituted a powerful discourse through which Romans negotiated conflicts and tensions in their social and political order. This study proceeds by a detailed examination of a wide range of ancient texts (all of which are translated) exploring the dynamics of their rhetoric, as well as the ends to which they were deployed. Roman moralising discourse, the author suggests, may be seen as especially concerned with the articulation of anxieties about gender, social status and political power. Individual chapters focus on adultery, effeminacy, the immorality of the Roman theatre, luxurious buildings and the dangers of pleasure. This book should appeal to students and scholars of classical literature and ancient history. It will also attract anthropologists and social and cultural historians.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521893893
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The decadence and depravity of the ancient Romans are a commonplace of serious history, popular novels and spectacular films. This book is concerned not with the question of 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. Upper-class Romans habitually accused one another of the most lurid sexual and sumptuary improprieties. Historians and moralists lamented the vices of their contemporaries and mourned for the virtues of a vanished age. Far from being empty commonplaces these assertions constituted a powerful discourse through which Romans negotiated conflicts and tensions in their social and political order. This study proceeds by a detailed examination of a wide range of ancient texts (all of which are translated) exploring the dynamics of their rhetoric, as well as the ends to which they were deployed. Roman moralising discourse, the author suggests, may be seen as especially concerned with the articulation of anxieties about gender, social status and political power. Individual chapters focus on adultery, effeminacy, the immorality of the Roman theatre, luxurious buildings and the dangers of pleasure. This book should appeal to students and scholars of classical literature and ancient history. It will also attract anthropologists and social and cultural historians.
Battlefield Emotions in Late Antiquity: A Study of Fear and Motivation in Roman Military Treatises
Author: Łukasz Różycki
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004462554
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Battlefield Emotions in Late Antiquity is a pioneering work, the first to present a comprehensive analysis of fear and motivation on the battlefields of Late Antiquity. By examining military treatises, Łukasz Różycki identifies means of manipulating the morale of soldiers on the same and on opposing sides, showing various examples of military trickery. The book analyzes non-combat properties of equipment, commanders’ speeches, war cries, keeping up appearances, and other methods of affecting the human psyche. The book is written in the spirit of new military history and combines the methodology of a historian, archaeologist, and philologist, and also considers aspects of psychology, particularly related to the functioning of groups and individuals in extreme situations.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004462554
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Battlefield Emotions in Late Antiquity is a pioneering work, the first to present a comprehensive analysis of fear and motivation on the battlefields of Late Antiquity. By examining military treatises, Łukasz Różycki identifies means of manipulating the morale of soldiers on the same and on opposing sides, showing various examples of military trickery. The book analyzes non-combat properties of equipment, commanders’ speeches, war cries, keeping up appearances, and other methods of affecting the human psyche. The book is written in the spirit of new military history and combines the methodology of a historian, archaeologist, and philologist, and also considers aspects of psychology, particularly related to the functioning of groups and individuals in extreme situations.
Author:
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN: 3525900236
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN: 3525900236
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
EUROPAEICUM
Author: Augustin Ostace
Publisher: Alpha & Omega Sapiens - Uppublishing Being / Augustin Ostace
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
This Book is dedicated to all People of the BLISSBURG, to this uniqueness polis of multi-centricities, orbiting the geo-history of the Lands in Europe, which, throughout times have brought about a lot of human values and through its inhabitants, have been spread out through countries and continents of our planetary Earth! The Europeans are considered to be one of the basic structures of human civilization, beginning with the Greek alphabet of Linear B, Democratic Constitution, Mathematics, Philosophy of Nature or the Contruction of the School of Philosophy… Encylopaedist
Publisher: Alpha & Omega Sapiens - Uppublishing Being / Augustin Ostace
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
This Book is dedicated to all People of the BLISSBURG, to this uniqueness polis of multi-centricities, orbiting the geo-history of the Lands in Europe, which, throughout times have brought about a lot of human values and through its inhabitants, have been spread out through countries and continents of our planetary Earth! The Europeans are considered to be one of the basic structures of human civilization, beginning with the Greek alphabet of Linear B, Democratic Constitution, Mathematics, Philosophy of Nature or the Contruction of the School of Philosophy… Encylopaedist
Libertas and Res Publica in the Roman Republic
Author: Catalina Balmaceda
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004441697
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Libertas and Res Publica in the Roman Republic offers some essential ideas for an understanding of Roman politics during the Republican period by analysing two key concepts: libertas (liberty) and res publica (public matter, republic). Exploring these concepts through a variety of different aspects – legal, religious, literary, political, and cultural – this book aims to explain the profound relationship between the two. Through the examination of a rich array of sources ranging from classical authors to coins, from legal texts to works of art, Balmaceda and her co-authors propose new readings that elucidate the complex meanings and inter-related functions of libertas and res publica, in a thought-provoking, deep, but very readable study of Roman political culture and identity.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004441697
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Libertas and Res Publica in the Roman Republic offers some essential ideas for an understanding of Roman politics during the Republican period by analysing two key concepts: libertas (liberty) and res publica (public matter, republic). Exploring these concepts through a variety of different aspects – legal, religious, literary, political, and cultural – this book aims to explain the profound relationship between the two. Through the examination of a rich array of sources ranging from classical authors to coins, from legal texts to works of art, Balmaceda and her co-authors propose new readings that elucidate the complex meanings and inter-related functions of libertas and res publica, in a thought-provoking, deep, but very readable study of Roman political culture and identity.
LOGOS BLISSBURG FOUR
Author: Augustin Ostace
Publisher: Augustin Ostace
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
The OnLine Book, LOGOS BLISSBURG FOUR, is dedicated to the history and creativity of the people of NORTH OF OLD DACIA (GettoDacia, RomanDacia, LatinDacia), centered around of Teutonische Siebenbürgen, to their fight for freedom and independence throughout times, to their culture and to their civilizations, which, over centuries, has been overspread throughout the five continents of our planetary earth… Also, Siebenbürgenlogos, is becoming, through its endeavor of Christian Monasteries, since the era of Middle Age, through its folklore and rich ethnology and ethnography, and, in last decades, through de mass of Transsylvania-emigrants overall in the world, becoming a strong part of Romanian Diaspora, i.e. of DIASPOROM, or DiaspoRom of five millions, widespread on 5 continents, as the fifth world’s province of the Old Carpathian – Danubian – Pontic territories… The above E-book, LOGOS BLISSBURG FOUR, is the first book in our AERA OF PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEMS, which belongs to two different sets of Philosophy, namely those of: X. PHILOSOPHY OF BLESSING (primarily) and XI. PHILOSOPHY OF MEDIOLOGY (secondarily) by making thus a parallelism to the double reference number of E - book, through IPBN and through GGKEY… Also, the code of the E-Book for Google / Play / Book, will be in double or triple Code – Number, reflecting our expanded meaning of Neoencyclopaedism or NovumEncyclopaedism… Not in the least, the Logos rich heritage in all areas of human handcrafts, is showing its strong of Info – Tourismus – Force, which, despite of present times of crisis through uncontrolled migration, through black economy, through terrorism and fanatism, or outbreak of a world viral infection, through a corona virus pandemic threatening, creating panic, fears and anxiety, within a humanity under cross-fires of many adversities… Being of Logos
Publisher: Augustin Ostace
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 43
Book Description
The OnLine Book, LOGOS BLISSBURG FOUR, is dedicated to the history and creativity of the people of NORTH OF OLD DACIA (GettoDacia, RomanDacia, LatinDacia), centered around of Teutonische Siebenbürgen, to their fight for freedom and independence throughout times, to their culture and to their civilizations, which, over centuries, has been overspread throughout the five continents of our planetary earth… Also, Siebenbürgenlogos, is becoming, through its endeavor of Christian Monasteries, since the era of Middle Age, through its folklore and rich ethnology and ethnography, and, in last decades, through de mass of Transsylvania-emigrants overall in the world, becoming a strong part of Romanian Diaspora, i.e. of DIASPOROM, or DiaspoRom of five millions, widespread on 5 continents, as the fifth world’s province of the Old Carpathian – Danubian – Pontic territories… The above E-book, LOGOS BLISSBURG FOUR, is the first book in our AERA OF PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEMS, which belongs to two different sets of Philosophy, namely those of: X. PHILOSOPHY OF BLESSING (primarily) and XI. PHILOSOPHY OF MEDIOLOGY (secondarily) by making thus a parallelism to the double reference number of E - book, through IPBN and through GGKEY… Also, the code of the E-Book for Google / Play / Book, will be in double or triple Code – Number, reflecting our expanded meaning of Neoencyclopaedism or NovumEncyclopaedism… Not in the least, the Logos rich heritage in all areas of human handcrafts, is showing its strong of Info – Tourismus – Force, which, despite of present times of crisis through uncontrolled migration, through black economy, through terrorism and fanatism, or outbreak of a world viral infection, through a corona virus pandemic threatening, creating panic, fears and anxiety, within a humanity under cross-fires of many adversities… Being of Logos
YANKEETUM
Author: Augustin Ostace
Publisher: Alpha & Omega Sapiens - Uppublishing Being / Augustin Ostace
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
This Book is dedicated to the all American People of the BLISSBURG, to this uniqueness polis of multi-centricities, orbiting the geo-history of the Transatlantic Land in America, which, throughout times has brought about a lot of human values and through its inhabitants, has been spread out through countries and continents of our planetary Earth! Even if the memory of New York City has lot tragedies, the book wants to be a resensing of this huge Metropolis between Old and New World, by hoping for a better understanding of all Americans and World inhabitants… Encylopaedist
Publisher: Alpha & Omega Sapiens - Uppublishing Being / Augustin Ostace
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
This Book is dedicated to the all American People of the BLISSBURG, to this uniqueness polis of multi-centricities, orbiting the geo-history of the Transatlantic Land in America, which, throughout times has brought about a lot of human values and through its inhabitants, has been spread out through countries and continents of our planetary Earth! Even if the memory of New York City has lot tragedies, the book wants to be a resensing of this huge Metropolis between Old and New World, by hoping for a better understanding of all Americans and World inhabitants… Encylopaedist