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Empire of the Romans From Julius Caesar to Justinian: Six Hundred Years of Peace and War, Volume II: Select Anthology

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Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

05.02.2021

Herausgeber

John Matthews

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons

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512

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24,9/17,5/2,3 cm

Gewicht

1021 g

Auflage

1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4443-3458-6

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

05.02.2021

Herausgeber

John Matthews

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons

Seitenzahl

512

Maße (L/B/H)

24,9/17,5/2,3 cm

Gewicht

1021 g

Auflage

1. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-4443-3458-6

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Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Empire of the Romans
  • Preface
     
    Lis of Figures
     
    Part I. Building an Empire
     
    1. "Contests of the Powerful"; Appian's Civil War
     
    2. A Roman senator mourns his wife; "Laudatio Turiae"
     
    3. Vitruvius, On Architecture, Preface & Introduction
     
    4. Past and future in Vergil's Aeneid; the battle of Actium
     
    5. The Authorised Version; Augustus' Res Gestae
     
    6. The Secular Games:
     
    1. Zosimus, New History
     
    2. Inscriptions on the conduct of the games
     
    3. Q. Horatius Flaccus, Carmen Saeculare
     
    7. An admirer of Tiberius; Velleius Paterculus, History of Rome
     
    8. An embassy to Caligula; Philo, Legatio ad Gaium
     
    9. Victims of tyranny; the deaths of Seneca and Lucan
     
    10. Episodes from the last years of Nero:
     
    1. Tiridates at Rome
     
    2. The Grand Tour of Hellas
     
    3. The Liberation of Hellas
     
    11. Plautus Silvanus, legate of Moesia
     
    Part II. Pax Romana: "A Polite and Powerful Empire"
     
    12. The life and death of the elder Pliny
     
    13. The Discourses of Epictetus
     
    14. Scenes from Metropolitan Life: Epigrams of Martial
     
    15. Civic Life at Ephesus:
     
    1. Duties of the proconsul
     
    2. A wealthy professor
     
    3. A disruptive visitor
     
    4. Inscriptions of Ephesus
     
    5. The Plancii of Perge: a prominent family of Asia Minor
     
    16. Public life and occupations in Artemidorus' Dream-Book
     
    17. A career choice; Lucian's Dream
     
    18. Labour costs in Diocletian's Edict on Maximum Prices:
     
    1. Trades and Professions
     
    2. Prices of slaves
     
    19. Games and entertainments:
     
    1. Epitaphs of gladiators
     
    2. A record-breaking charioteer; G. Appuleius Diocles
     
    20. A visit to the country
     
    21. Travelling to court in the Digest
     
    22. Lucian, The Ship:
     
    1. The Ship
     
    2. Letter from a crewman
     
    3. The sailing season
     
    23. Life in the Armed Forces:
     
    1. A military exploit
     
    2. Hadrian addresses the troops
     
    3. A tour of inspection; Arrian's Circumnavigation of the Black Sea
     
    4. A legionary surveyor and engineer
     
    5. Joining the navy; recruits write home
     
    6. Retirement from the army; a military diploma
     
    7. A soldier makes his will
     
    24. Religion, Philosophy, Science:
     
    1. Apuleius & the goddess Isis
     
    2. Aelius Aristides & the god Asklepios
     
    3. A Chapter of Accidents: Fronto and Marcus Caesar
     
    4. Galen's Prognosis
     
    5. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "To Himself"
     
    25. Crime and punishment in the Digest
     
    26. A Hearing before the Proconsul: Acts of the Scillitan Martyrs
     
    Part III. Rising to the Challenge
     
    27. A witness to his age; the Roman History of Cassius Dio:
     
    1. The last days of Commodus
     
    2. The end of Dio's History
     
    28. The Great King blows the trumpet
     
    29. The Thirteenth Sibylline Oracle
     
    30. The Canonical Letter of Gregory Thaumaturgus
     
    31. A philosopher's circle; Eunapius' Life of Porphyry
     
    32. The Herulian attack on Athens
     
    33. The Martyrdom of Cyprian
     
    34. Christian persecutions in the papyri
     
    35. Maximinus and the Christians
     
    36. Legal Proceedings before the consularis Numidiae
     
    Part IV. A New Empire
     
    37. Diary of an official
     
    38. Cities of Constantine (1), Constantinople, "New Rome":
     
    1. Zosimus, New History
     
    2. Chronicon Paschale
     
    39. Cities of Constantine (2), Rome: the Liber Pontificalis
     
    40. Cities of