Author: Michael Grant
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415127721
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The Severans analyses the colourful decline of the Roman Empire during the reign of the Severans, the first non-Roman dynasty. With its beautifully selected plate section, maps and bibliography, this will appeal to student and general reader.
The Severans
Author: Michael Grant
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415127721
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The Severans analyses the colourful decline of the Roman Empire during the reign of the Severans, the first non-Roman dynasty. With its beautifully selected plate section, maps and bibliography, this will appeal to student and general reader.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415127721
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The Severans analyses the colourful decline of the Roman Empire during the reign of the Severans, the first non-Roman dynasty. With its beautifully selected plate section, maps and bibliography, this will appeal to student and general reader.
The Severans
Author: Michael Grant
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317798988
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
The Severans analyses the colourful decline of the Roman Empire during the reign of the Severans, the first non-Italian dynasty. In his learned and exciting style, Michael Grant describes the foreign wars waged against the Alemanni and the Persians, and the remarkable personalities of the imperial family. Thus the reader encounters Julia Domna's alleged literary circle, or Elagabalus' curious private life - which included dancing in the streets, marrying a vestal virgin and smothering his enemies with rose petals. With its beautifully selected plate section, maps and extensive bibliography, this book will appeal to the student of ancient history as well as to the general reader. Michael Grant is one of the world's greatest writers on ancient history. His previous publications include: Art in the Roman Empire, Greek and Roman Historians and Who's Who in Classical Mythology all published by Routledge.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317798988
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
The Severans analyses the colourful decline of the Roman Empire during the reign of the Severans, the first non-Italian dynasty. In his learned and exciting style, Michael Grant describes the foreign wars waged against the Alemanni and the Persians, and the remarkable personalities of the imperial family. Thus the reader encounters Julia Domna's alleged literary circle, or Elagabalus' curious private life - which included dancing in the streets, marrying a vestal virgin and smothering his enemies with rose petals. With its beautifully selected plate section, maps and extensive bibliography, this book will appeal to the student of ancient history as well as to the general reader. Michael Grant is one of the world's greatest writers on ancient history. His previous publications include: Art in the Roman Empire, Greek and Roman Historians and Who's Who in Classical Mythology all published by Routledge.
The Eastern Roman Empire under the Severans
Author: Julia Hoffmann-Salz
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN: 3647302511
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The year of the four emperors in AD 193 shows the cosmopolitan interconnectedness of the Roman Empire, yet scholarship has long framed the Severan dynasty in a narrative of descent stressing their North African and in particular their Syrian origins. The contributions of this volume question this conventional approach and instead examine more closely actual Severan policy in the Near East to detect potential local connections that determined this policy as well as how local communities and elites reacted to it. The volume thus explores new beginnings and old connections in the Roman Near East.
Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN: 3647302511
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The year of the four emperors in AD 193 shows the cosmopolitan interconnectedness of the Roman Empire, yet scholarship has long framed the Severan dynasty in a narrative of descent stressing their North African and in particular their Syrian origins. The contributions of this volume question this conventional approach and instead examine more closely actual Severan policy in the Near East to detect potential local connections that determined this policy as well as how local communities and elites reacted to it. The volume thus explores new beginnings and old connections in the Roman Near East.
Greek Narratives of the Roman Empire under the Severans
Author: Adam M. Kemezis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316148084
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The political instability of the Severan Period (AD 193–235) destroyed the High Imperial consensus about the Roman past and caused both rulers and subjects constantly to re-imagine and re-narrate both recent events and the larger shape of Greco-Roman history and cultural identity. This book examines the narratives put out by the new dynasty, and how the literary elite responded with divergent visions of their own. It focuses on four long Greek narrative texts from the period (by Cassius Dio, Philostratus and Herodian), each of which constructs its own version of the empire, each defined by different Greek and Roman elements and each differently affected by dynastic change, especially that from Antonine to Severan. Innovative theories of narrative are used to produce new readings of these works that bring political, literary and cultural perspectives together in a unified presentation of the Severan era as a distinctive historical moment.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316148084
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The political instability of the Severan Period (AD 193–235) destroyed the High Imperial consensus about the Roman past and caused both rulers and subjects constantly to re-imagine and re-narrate both recent events and the larger shape of Greco-Roman history and cultural identity. This book examines the narratives put out by the new dynasty, and how the literary elite responded with divergent visions of their own. It focuses on four long Greek narrative texts from the period (by Cassius Dio, Philostratus and Herodian), each of which constructs its own version of the empire, each defined by different Greek and Roman elements and each differently affected by dynastic change, especially that from Antonine to Severan. Innovative theories of narrative are used to produce new readings of these works that bring political, literary and cultural perspectives together in a unified presentation of the Severan era as a distinctive historical moment.
The Roman Empire During The Severan Dynasty
Author: T. Brennan
Publisher: Gorgias PressLlc
ISBN: 9781593338381
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
This volume contains 20 peer-reviewed papers highlighting historical, social and cultural episodes, conditions, and trends of the Empire during the reign of Septimius Severus, the last great emperor to lead the Romans prior to the third century crisis.
Publisher: Gorgias PressLlc
ISBN: 9781593338381
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
This volume contains 20 peer-reviewed papers highlighting historical, social and cultural episodes, conditions, and trends of the Empire during the reign of Septimius Severus, the last great emperor to lead the Romans prior to the third century crisis.
Greek Narratives of the Roman Empire under the Severans
Author: Adam M. Kemezis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107062721
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
This book explores how Greek authors who witnessed sudden political change reacted by re-imagining the larger narrative of the Roman past.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107062721
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
This book explores how Greek authors who witnessed sudden political change reacted by re-imagining the larger narrative of the Roman past.
The Severance Genealogy
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ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Great Women of Imperial Rome
Author: Jasper Burns
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134131852
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
A lively and engaging account of the leading ladies of imperial Rome from the foundation of the Empire to the third century AD (and a postscript on the fourth century). It is illustrated by 416 Coin Photographs as well as a dozen striking portraits by the author, and will thus be an indispensable resource for historians, art historians and numismatists in addition to its wider appeal.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134131852
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
A lively and engaging account of the leading ladies of imperial Rome from the foundation of the Empire to the third century AD (and a postscript on the fourth century). It is illustrated by 416 Coin Photographs as well as a dozen striking portraits by the author, and will thus be an indispensable resource for historians, art historians and numismatists in addition to its wider appeal.
Written Space in the Latin West, 200 BC to AD 300
Author: Gareth Sears
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441161627
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
This volume explores the creation of 'written spaces' through the accretion of monumental inscriptions and non-official graffiti in the Latin-speaking West between c.200 BC and AD 300. The shift to an epigraphic culture demonstrates new mentalities regarding the use of language, the relationship between local elites and the population, and between local elites and the imperial power. The creation of both official and non-official inscriptions is one of the most recognisable facets of the Roman city. The chapters of this book consider why urban populations created these written spaces and how these spaces in turn affected those urban civilisations. They also examine how these inscriptions interacted to create written spaces that could inculcate a sense of 'Roman-ness' into urban populations whilst also acting as a means of differentiating communities from each other. The volume includes new approaches to the study of political entities, social institutions, graffiti and painting, and the differing trajectories of written spaces in the cities of Roman Africa, Italy, Spain and Gaul.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441161627
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
This volume explores the creation of 'written spaces' through the accretion of monumental inscriptions and non-official graffiti in the Latin-speaking West between c.200 BC and AD 300. The shift to an epigraphic culture demonstrates new mentalities regarding the use of language, the relationship between local elites and the population, and between local elites and the imperial power. The creation of both official and non-official inscriptions is one of the most recognisable facets of the Roman city. The chapters of this book consider why urban populations created these written spaces and how these spaces in turn affected those urban civilisations. They also examine how these inscriptions interacted to create written spaces that could inculcate a sense of 'Roman-ness' into urban populations whilst also acting as a means of differentiating communities from each other. The volume includes new approaches to the study of political entities, social institutions, graffiti and painting, and the differing trajectories of written spaces in the cities of Roman Africa, Italy, Spain and Gaul.
Severan Culture
Author: Simon Swain
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521859824
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
This book surveys the Severan period's many developments in literature, philosophy, religion, art, archaeology and culture.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521859824
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
This book surveys the Severan period's many developments in literature, philosophy, religion, art, archaeology and culture.