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  • Reading Republican Oratory

    Reconstructions, Contexts, Receptions

    Modifié par Christa Gray, Andrea Balbo, Richard M. A. Marshall, Catherine E. W. Steel ...
    Public speech was a key aspect of politics in Republican Rome, both in theory and in practice, and recent decades have seen a surge in scholarly discussion of its significance and performance. Yet the partial nature of the surviving evidence means that our understanding of its workings is dominated by one man, whose texts are the only examples to have survived in complete form since antiquity: ... En savoir plus

    $123.99 CAD

  • Institutions and Ideology in Republican Rome

    Speech, Audience and Decision

    Modifié par Henriette van der Blom, Christa Gray, Catherine Steel ...
    This volume brings together a distinguished international group of researchers to explore public speech in Republican Rome in its institutional and ideological contexts. The focus throughout is on the interaction between argument, speaker, delivery and action. The chapters consider how speeches acted alongside other factors - such as the identity of the speaker, his alliances, the deployment of ... En savoir plus

    $132.99 CAD

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  • The Roman Revolution

    par Ronald Syme ...
    The Roman Revolution is a profound and unconventional treatment of a great theme - the fall of the Republic and the decline of freedom in Rome between 60 BC and AD 14, and the rise to power of the greatest of the Roman Emperors, Augustus. The transformation of state and society, the violent transference of power and property, and the establishment of Augustus' rule are presented in an ... En savoir plus

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  • Livia

    First Lady of Imperial Rome

    par Anthony A. Barrett ...
    The author of Rome Is Burning separates fact from fiction as he examines the life of an ancient Roman figure made famous in the TV miniseries I Claudius.Livia—wife of the first Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus, and mother of the second, Tiberius—wielded extraordinary power at the center of Roman politics. In this biography of Livia, the first in English, Anthony Barrett sets aside the portrait of a ... En savoir plus

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  • Roman Republics

    par Harriet I. Flower ...
    From the Renaissance to today, the idea that the Roman Republic lasted more than 450 years--persisting unbroken from the late sixth century to the mid-first century BC--has profoundly shaped how Roman history is understood, how the ultimate failure of Roman republicanism is explained, and how republicanism itself is defined. In Roman Republics, Harriet Flower argues for a completely new ... En savoir plus

    $40.69 CAD

  • The Beginnings of Rome

    Italy and Rome from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars (c.1000–264 BC)

    par Tim Cornell ...
    Collections series The Routledge History of the Ancient World
    Using the results of archaeological techniques, and examining methodological debates, Tim Cornell provides a lucid and authoritative account of the rise of Rome.The Beginnings of Rome offers insight on major issues such as:Rome’s relations with the Etruscansthe conflict between patricians and plebeiansthe causes of Roman imperialismthe growth of slave-based economy.Answering the need for raising ... En savoir plus

    $67.99 CAD

  • Rome's Vestal Virgins

    par Robin Lorsch Wildfang ...
    Comprehensive and thoroughly up-to-date, this volume offers a brand new analysis of the Vestal Virgins’ ritual function in Roman religion.Undertaking a detailed and careful analysis of ancient literary sources, Wildfang argues that the Vestals’ virginity must be understood on a variety of different levels and provides a solution to the problem of the Vestals’ peculiar legal status in ancient Rome ... En savoir plus

    $83.99 CAD

  • Politics in the Roman Republic

    par Henrik Mouritsen ...
    Collections series Key Themes in Ancient History
    The politics of the Roman Republic has in recent decades been the subject of intense debate, covering issues such as the degree of democracy and popular influence, 'parties' and ideology, politics as public ritual, and the character of Rome's political culture. This engaging book examines all these issues afresh, and presents an original synthesis of Rome's political institutions and practices. It ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Patrician Tribune

    Publius Clodius Pulcher

    par W. Jeffrey Tatum ...
    Collections series Studies in the History of Greece and Rome
    Publius Clodius Pulcher was a prominent political figure during the last years of the Roman Republic. Born into an illustrious patrician family, his early career was sullied by military failures and especially by the scandal that resulted from his allegedly disguising himself as a woman in order to sneak into a forbidden religious ceremony in the hope of seducing Caesar’s wife. Clodius survived ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Cicero

    Modifié par Catherine Steel ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Cicero was one of classical antiquity's most prolific, varied and self-revealing authors. His letters, speeches, treatises and poetry chart a political career marked by personal struggle and failure and the collapse of the republican system of government to which he was intellectually and emotionally committed. They were read, studied and imitated throughout antiquity and subsequently became ... En savoir plus

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic

    Modifié par Harriet I. Flower ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to the Ancient World
    The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic examines all aspects of Roman history and civilization from 509 to 49 BC. The key development of the republican period was Rome's rise from a small city to a wealthy metropolis, which served as the international capital of an extensive Mediterranean empire. These centuries produced a classic republican political culture, closely associated with the ... En savoir plus

    $51.99 CAD

  • Rome, the Greek World, and the East

    Volume 1: The Roman Republic and the Augustan Revolution

    par Fergus Millar ...
    Collections series Studies in the History of Greece and Rome
    Fergus Millar is one of the most influential contemporary historians of the ancient world. His essays and books, including The Emperor in the Roman World and The Roman Near East, have enriched our understanding of the Greco-Roman world in fundamental ways. In his writings Millar has made the inhabitants of the Roman Empire central to our conception of how the empire functioned. He also has shown ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD