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Achard, Guy PRACTIQUE RHÉTORIQUE ET IDÉOLOGIE POLITIQUE DANS LES DISCOURS "OPTIMATES" DE CICÉRON
E. J. Brill 1981 9004063749 / 9789004063747 Softcover Very Good
Small bump to base of spine. Chip to top of spine. Some minor wear to wraps. Creasing to rear upper corner of wraps. ; Contents: introduction; Programmatic Poems; Parody; Ovid as Daedalus: Difference in Attitude; Ovid as Daedalus: Change of Mood; Ovid's farewell: The Third book of the Amores; conclusion; Index rerum; index locorum propertianorum et ovidianorum. ; Mnemosyne Bibliotheca Classica Batava; 546 pages
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Africa, Thomas W PHYLARCHUS AND THE SPARTAN REVOLUTION
University of California Press 1961 Softcover Very Good+
Light browning to wraps. Gift inscription on inner wrap. Light pencil notes on ffep only. ; University of California Publications in History; 92 pages; Phylarchus was a Greek historical writer whose works have been lost, but not before having been considerably used by other historians whose works have survived.
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Alföldi, A. ; E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum; G. Alföldy; T. D. Barnes; J. Béranger; A. Chastagnol; J. F. Gilliam; A. Lippold; B. Mouchová; Th. Pekáry; H. -G. Pflaum; J. Schwartz; J. Straub; R. Syme; BONNER HISTORIA - AUGUSTA - COLLOQUIUM 1970
Rudolf Habelt Verlag 1972 3774911681 / 9783774911680 Hardcover Very Good+ with no dust jacket
Very minor shelfwear. Very Light bumping to base of spine. Former owner's name whited-out to ffep. ; Constantinus...proverbio vulgari Trachala...nominatus / Andreas Alföldi --Apicius, De re coquinaria and the Vita Heliogabali / Elisabeth Alföldi-Rosenbaum --Notes on some birds and fishes of luxury in the Historia Augusta / Elisabeth Alföldi-Rosenbaum --Sturz des Kaisers Geta und die antike Geschichtsschreibung / GéZa Alföldy --Ultimus Antoninorum / Timothy D. Barnes --Julien l'Apostat et l'hérédité Du pouvoir impérial / Jean Béranger --Supplice inventé Par Avidius Cassius: remarques sur l'Histoire Auguste et la lettre 1 de Saint Jérôme / André Chastagnol --Histoire Auguste et les "Douze CéSars" de Suétone / André Chastagnol --Ammianus and the Historia Augusta: the lost books and the period 117-285 / J. F. Gilliam --Einfall des Radagais im Jahre 405-06 und die Vita Aureliani der Historia Augusta / Adolf Lippold --Crudelitas principis optimi / Bohumila Mouchová --Grab des Pompeius / Thomas Pekáry --Valeur de l'information historique de la vita Commodi à La lumière des personnages nomméMent cités par le biographe / Hans-Georg Pflaum --Vita Marci 17,4 et ses déVeloppements (problèmes de composition et de polémique anti-chrétienne) / Jacques Schwartz --Cassius Dio und die Historia Augusta / Johannes Straub --Marius Maximus once again / Sir Ronald Syme. ; Antiquitas 4, Band 10; 342 pages
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Alföldi, Andrew (Trans. Harold Mattingly) A CONFLICT OF IDEAS IN THE LATE ROMAN EMPIRE The Clash between the Senate and Valentinian I
Oxford Clarendon Press 1952 Hardcover Very Good- with no dust jacket
Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Sound copy; 151 pages; The old world of pagan thought and custom, based on the city of Rome, tries to defend itself against the forces of innovation and disruption in the new age....On the one side, the emperor, representing the mass of the citizens...on the other, the senate and aristocracy of Rome, representing the ancient tradition and way of life. The conflict turns round the trials of leading Roman nobles for magical practices-- regarded by them as a permissible maintenance of traditional rites, but by the Emperor as symptoms of disloyalty and dangerous to his person and the state.
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Alföldy, G. ; E. Birley; A. Chastagnol; L. Cracco Ruggini; J. F. Gilliam; H. P. Kohns; H. Nesselhauf; Th. Pekáry; H. -G. Pflaum; W. Schmid; J. Schwartz; W. Seston; J. Straub; K. F. Stroheker; R. Syme; B. Treucker. BONNER HISTORIA - AUGUSTA - COLLOQUIUM 1964/1965
Rudolf Habelt Verlag 1966 Hardcover Very Good+ with no dust jacket
Very minor shelfwear. Very Light soiling to bottom of spine. ; Barbareneinfälle und religiöse Krisen in Italien / Géza Alföldy --Bellum Sarmaticum und ein Ludus Sarmaticus in der Historia Augusta / Géza Alföldy --Military intelligence and the Historia Augusta / Eric Birley --Zosime II, 38 et l'Histoire Auguste / André Chastagnol --Riflesso del mito di Alessandro nella Historia Augusta / Lellia Cracco Ruggini == Egyptian cohort in A. D. 117 / J. F. Gilliam --Wirtschaftsgeschichtliche Probleme in der Historia Augusta / Hans Peter Kohns --Vita Commodi und die Acta Urbis / Herbert Nesselhauf --Kaiser Valerians Brückenbau bei Mopsos in Kilikien / Thomas Pekáry --Valeur de la source inspiratrice de la Vita Pii à La lumière des personnalités nommément citées / Hans-Georg Pflaum --Koexistenz von Sarapiskult und Christentum im Hadrianbrief bei Vopiscus / Wolfgang Schmid --Histoire Auguste et Palmyre / Jacques Schwartz --A propos des données chronographiques de l'Histoire Auguste / Jacques Schwartz --Sur les traces de Marius Maximus: I. Marius Maximus et les consuls de 209 / William Seston --Senaculum, id est mulierum senatus / Johannes Straub --Aussenpolitik des Antonius Pius nach der Historia Augusta / Karl Friedrich Stroheker --Bogus names in the Historia Augusta / Sir Ronald Syme --Kriterien der Aktualisierung in der Historia Augusta / Barnim Treucker. ; Antiquitas 4, Band 3; 328 pages
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Anderson, William S. POMPEY, HIS FRIENDS, AND THE LITERATURE OF THE FIRST CENTURY B. C.
University of California Press 1963 Paperback Very Good with no dust jacket Signed by Author
Light browning to spine and edges of wraps. Tiny stains to rear wrap. Faint scratch to titlepage. Light pencil marginalia to a couple of pages. Inscribed by author to front wrap: "A. E. G. With Thanks W. S. A." ; Looks at the factors affecting amicitia and Pompey's political fortunes as well as his influence on Roman culture. ; University of California Publications in Classical Philology Volume 19, No. 1, Pp. 1-88; Vol. 19; 88 pages; Signed by Author
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Ando, Clifford IMPERIAL IDEOLOGY AND PROVINCIAL LOYALTY IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE
University of California Press 2000 0520220676 / 9780520220676 First Edition Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
A few tiny chips to DJ else fine. ; xxi, 494pp.; Classics and Contemporary Thought; 494 pages; The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy smaller than that of a typical late-twentieth-century research university. In approaching this problem, Clifford Ando does not ask the ever-fashionable question, Why did the Roman empire fall? Rather, he asks, Why did the empire last so long? Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire argues that the longevity of the empire rested not on Roman military power but on a gradually realized consensus that Roman rule was justified. This consensus was itself the product of a complex conversation between the central government and its far-flung peripheries. Ando investigates the mechanisms that sustained this conversation, explores its contribution to the legitimation of Roman power, and reveals as its product the provincial absorption of the forms and content of Roman political and legal discourse. Throughout, his sophisticated and subtle reading is informed by current thinking on social formation by theorists such as Max Weber, Jrgen Habermas, and Pierre Bourdieu.
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Ando, Clifford LAW, LANGUAGE, AND EMPIRE IN THE ROMAN TRADITION
University of Pennsylvania Press 2011 0812243544 / 9780812243543 Hardcover Fine in Fine dust jacket
The Romans depicted the civil law as a body of rules crafted through communal deliberation for the purpose of self-government. Yet, as Clifford Ando demonstrates in Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition, the civil law was also an instrument of empire: many of its most characteristic features developed in response to the challenges posed when the legal system of Rome was deployed to embrace, incorporate, and govern people and cultures far afield. Ando studies the processes through which lawyers at Rome grappled with the legal pluralism resulting from imperial conquests. He focuses primarily on the tools—most prominently analogy and fiction—used to extend the system and enable it to regulate the lives of persons far from the minds of the original legislators, and he traces the central place that philosophy of language came to occupy in Roman legal thought. In the second part of the book Ando examines the relationship between civil, public, and international law. Despite the prominence accorded public and international law in legal theory, it was civil law that provided conceptual resources to those other fields in the Roman tradition. Ultimately it was the civil law's implication in systems of domination outside its own narrow sphere that opened the door to its own subversion. When political turmoil at Rome upended the institutions of political and legislative authority and effectively ended Roman democracy, the concepts and language that the civil law supplied to the project of Republican empire saw their meanings transformed. As a result, forms of domination once exercised by Romans over others were inscribed in the workings of law at Rome, henceforth to be exercised by the Romans over themselves. ; Empire and After; 184 pages
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Andreas; Géza Alföldy; Eric Birley; André Chastagnol; Adolf Lippold; Jacques Schwartz; Johannes Straub; Ronald Syme BONNER HISTORIA - AUGUSTA - COLLOQUIUM 1966/1967
Rudolf Habelt Verlag 1968 Hardcover Very Good+ with no dust jacket
Minor shelfwear. Light bump to base of spine. ; Verlorene Enmannsche Kaisergeschichte und die "Caesares" des Iulianus Apostata / Andreas Alföldi--Erklärung des Namens "Caesar" in den spätrömischen Kompendien (zu v. Ael. 2,3-5) / Andreas Alföldi; --Herkunft und Laufbahn des Clodius Albinus in der Historia Augusta / Géza Alföldy; --Some teachers of M. Aurelius / Anthony R. Birley --Some militaria in the Historia Augusta / Eric Birley --Utilisation des "Caesares" d'Aurelius Victor dans l'Histoire Auguste / André Chastagnol --A propos du "iudicium magnum" de l'empereur Probus / André Chastagnol --Kaiser Maximinus Thrax und der römische Senat (Interpretationen zur vita der Maximini Duo) / Adolf Lippold --Sur la date de l'Histoire Auguste / Jacques Schwartz --Calpurnia univiria / Johannes Straub --Ipse ille patriarcha / Sir Ronald Syme --Ignotus, the good biographer / Sir Ronald Syme. ; Antiquitas 4, Band 4; 179 pages
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Arena, Valentina LIBERTAS AND THE PRACTICE OF POLITICS IN THE LATE ROMAN REPUBLIC
Cambridge University Press 2013 1107028175 / 9781107028173 Hardcover Fine in Fine dust jacket
This is a comprehensive analysis of the idea of libertas and its conflicting uses in the political struggles of the late Roman Republic. By reconstructing Roman political thinking about liberty against the background of Classical and Hellenistic thought, it excavates two distinct intellectual traditions on the means allowing for the preservation and the loss of libertas. Considering the interplay of these traditions in the political debates of the first century BC, Dr Arena offers a significant reinterpretation of the political struggles of the time as well as a radical reappraisal of the role played by the idea of liberty in the practice of politics. She argues that, as a result of its uses in rhetorical debates, libertas underwent a form of conceptual change at the end of the Republic and came to legitimise a new course of politics, which led progressively to the transformation of the whole political system. ; 336 pages
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Astin, Alan E. CATO THE CENSOR
Oxford Clarendon Press 1978 0198148097 / 9780198148098 First Edition Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing to top of textblock. DJ has a bit of creasing. DJ has minor shelfwear. ; Provides a study of Cato as complete and as coherent as the often fragmentary evidence permits, excluding only the strictly agricultural content of the 'de Agricultura. ' The first six chapters examine his career in sequence, and then a further six deal with several broad topics which cut across the chronological pattern. " Also features a bibliography, samples of Cato's writing, and maps from his time. ; 9.25 x 1 x 6.25 Inches; 344 pages
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Badian, E. FOREIGN CLIENTELAE 264-70 B. C.
Oxford Clarendon Press 1967 0198142048 / 9780198142041 Hardcover Very Good in Good dust jacket
Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing to top of textblock. DJ has tears with a bit of loss to head of spine. Some browning to DJ. ; Clientela, though not confined to Rome, was a typically Roman institution: a relationship between the weaker and the stronger based on moral obligation and sanctioned by custom and force. This book attempts to show how it became a pattern of Rome's relations with foreign states, where Roman strength surpassed theirs. This developed into the chief instrument of Roman domination, but clientelae also held the fabric of the Empire together in times of trouble. ; Oxford Scholarly Classics; 342 pages; The relationship of patron and client was a typically Roman institution: a relationship between the weaker and the stronger based on moral obligation and sanctioned by custom and force. This book attempts to show how it became the pattern of Rome's relations with foreign states, how it developed into the chief instrument of Roman domination, and how this relationship formed a critical part of the fabric that held the Empire together.
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Badian, E. ROMAN IMPERIALISM IN THE LATE REPUBLIC
Cornell University Press 1981 0801491096 / 9780801491092 Second Edition Softcover Very Good with no dust jacket
Minor shelfwear. ; The motives and the various aspects of Roman imperialism in the second century are briefly analysed, and the changes in Roman attitudes due to the gradual progress of the 'Roman Revolution' are traced from that point to Caesar. The aim has been to follow the ancient sources and to eliminate prejudices imported by modern social and economic conditions and theories. ; 117 pages
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Baehr, Peter CAESAR AND THE FADING OF THE ROMAN WORLD A Study in Republicanism and Caesarism
Transaction Publishers 1997 1560003049 / 9781560003045 Hardcover Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Very minor shelfwear to DJ now protected in mylar. ; Contents: Caesar within the Republican imagination; Advent of Caesarism; Bismarck and the Crisis of German Politics: max Weber and His contemporaries I; From German Politics to Universal Sociology: max Weber and His contemporaries II; Caesarism in Twentieth-Century Political and Sociological Thought. ; 359 pages; For many centuries, Julius Caesar was a name that evoked strong feelings among educated people. Some of these responses were complimentary, but others came from the point of view of "political republicanism"—which envisaged Caesar as a historical symbol for some of the most dangerous tendencies a polity could experience. Caesar represented everything that republicans detested—corruption, demagogy, usurpation—and as such, provided an antimodel against which genuine political virtue could be measured. Caesar and the Fading of the Roman World examines the reception of Caesar in republican thought until the late eighteenth century and his transformation in the nineteenth, when he enjoyed a major rehabilitation in the literary culture and historiography of the day. Critical of hereditary monarchy and emphasizing the collective political obligations citizens owed to their city or commonwealth, republican thinkers sought to cultivate institutions and mores best adapted to self-governing liberty. The republican idiom became an integral element in the discourse of the American revolutionaries and constitution builders during the eighteenth century, and of their counterparts in France. In the nineteenth century, Caesar enjoyed a major rehabilitation; from being a pariah, he was elevated in the writings of people like Byron, De Quincey, Mommsen, Froude, and Nietzsche to the greatest statesman of his age. Simultaneously, Caesar's name continued to function as a term of polemic in the emergence of a new debate on what came to be called "Caesarism." While the metamorphosis of Caesar's reputation is studied here as a process in its own right, it is also meant to highlight the increasing enfeeblement of the republican tradition. The transformation of Caesar's image is a sure sign of changes within the wider present-day political culture and evidence of the emergence of new problems and challenges. Drawing on history, political theory, and sociology, Caesar and the Fading of the Roman World uses the image of Caesar as a way of interpreting broader political and cultural tendencies. Peter Baehr discusses the significance of living not in a postmodern society, but in a postclassical one in which ideas of political obligation have become increasingly emaciated and in which the theoretical resources for the care of our public world have become correspondingly scarce.
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Bagnall, Roger S. LATER ROMAN EGYPT Society, Religion, Economy and Administration
Variorum 2003 0860788997 / 9780860788997 Hardcover Very Good+ with no dust jacket
A couple of corners very slightly bumped. ; Egypt, with its ever-growing wealth of evidence from the papyri, has in recent decades been one of the liveliest areas of scholarship on the later Roman Empire. This volume collects two dozen articles on the social, economic, and administrative history of Egypt. In these studies some of the main themes of Roger Bagnall's work are visible, in particular attempts to explore the possibilities for quantifying not only questions like the burden of taxation or the distribution of land-ownership, but more tantalizing and controversial matters like the rate at which the population of Egypt was Christianized. ; Variorum Collected Studies Series, 758; 324 pages
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Barker, Sir Ernest GREEK POLITICAL THEORY Plato and His Predecessors
Methuen & Company & Barnes and Noble. 1964 0416575307 / 9780416575309 Softcover Very Good
Faint creasing to wraps. Light shelfwear. Scholar's name to half-title (Christian Habicht). ; Much has been written about the interpretation of Plato. Once interpreted as a revolutionary of the Left, and a prophet of socialism, he has since been interpreted as a revolutionary of the Right and a forerunner of Fascism. In this book the author hopes that Plato appears as himself - a revolutionary indeed, and even an authoritarian, but a revolutionary of the pure idea of the Good, and an authoritarian of the pure reason, unattached either to the Right or the Left. ; University Paperbacks 3; 468 pages
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Barker, Sir Ernest GREEK POLITICAL THEORY Plato and His Predecessors
Methuen & Company & Barnes and Noble. 1960 0416575307 / 9780416575309 Softcover Very Good-
Wraps rubbed with some light edgewear to spine. Former owner's name to halftitle. ; Much has been written about the interpretation of Plato. Once interpreted as a revolutionary of the Left, and a prophet of socialism, he has since been interpreted as a revolutionary of the Right and a forerunner of Fascism. In this book the author hopes that Plato appears as himself - a revolutionary indeed, and even an authoritarian, but a revolutionary of the pure idea of the Good, and an authoritarian of the pure reason, unattached either to the Right or the Left. ; University Paperbacks 3; 468 pages
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Barnwell, P. S. EMPEROR, PREFECTS, & KINGS The Roman West, 395-565
University of North Carolina Press 1992 0807820717 / 9780807820711 Hardcover Fine in Fine dust jacket
0.79 x 9.06 x 5.91 Inches; 256 pages; Disagrees with the commonly held notion that the Roman imperial government disintegrated during the 5th century, and was replaced by the Germanic administrations of such peoples as the Visigoths, Burgundians, and Franks. Argues instead that the new kingdoms were an outgrowth of Roman rule, and owed much to it.
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Barré, Michael L. (Barre) THE GOD-LIST IN THE TREATY BETWEEN HANNIBAL AND PHILIP V OF MACEDONIA A Study in Light of the Ancient Near Eastern Treaty Tradition
The Johns Hopkins University Press 1983 0801827876 / 9780801827877 Hardcover Very Good with no dust jacket
Bumping to top corners and textblock. Minor edgewear to extremities. Former owner's name on ffep. ; In 215 BC in the second Punic War, Philip V of Macedonia sent an emissary to Hannibal in order to form an alliance with the Carthaginian general. This alliance was formalized in a treaty, the document which provides the corpus for this study. In this treaty is a list of "divine witnesses", which comprise the "official pantheon" of Carthage. The organization of the material and the presentation of the god-lists of all the treaties in a series of charts in Appendix I as well as the extensive indexes and bibliography make the book a useful reference work. Any further treatment of West Semitic pantheons will have to take this study seriously and all who are interested in Near Eastern religion will consult this work with great profit. ; The Johns Hopkins Near Eastern Studies; 10.5 x 0.75 x 7.25 Inches; 236 pages
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Barrett, Anthony A. AGRIPPINA Sex, Power, and Politics in the Early Empire
New Haven, CT, U.S.A. Yale University Press 1996 0300065981 / 9780300065985 Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket
Very faint shelfwear to book else fine. DJ has light shelfwear now in mylar ; 330pp, 19 illustrations. Agrippina the Younger attained a level of power in first-century Rome unprecedented for a woman. According to ancient sources, she achieved her success by plotting against her brother, the emperor Caligula, murdering her husband, the emperor Claudius, and controlling her son, the emperor Nero, by sleeping with him. Modern scholars tend to accept this verdict. But in his dynamic biography-the first on Agrippina in English-Anthony Barrett paints a startling new picture of this influential woman. Drawing on the latest archaeological, numismatic, and historical evidence, Barrett argues that Agrippina has been misjudged. Although she was ambitious, says Barrett, she made her way through ability and determination rather than by sexual allure, and her political contributions to her time seem to have been positive. After Agrippina's marriage to Claudius there was a marked decline in the number of judicial executions and there was close cooperation between the Senate and the emperor; the settlement of Cologne, founded under her aegis, was a model of social harmony; and the first five years of Nero's reign, while she was still alive, were the most enlightened of his rule. According to Barrett, Agrippina's one real failing was her relationship with her son, the monster of her own making who had her murdered in horrific and violent circumstances. Agrippina's impact was so lasting, however, that for some 150 years after her death no woman in the imperial family dared assume an assertive political role. ; 330 pages
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Barrett, Anthony A. AGRIPPINA Sex, Power, and Politics in the Early Empire
New Haven, CT, U.S.A. Yale University Press 1996 0300065981 / 9780300065985 Hardcover Fine in Very Good dust jacket
Book is fine. Light shelfwear to DJ. ; 330pp, 19 illustrations. Agrippina the Younger attained a level of power in first-century Rome unprecedented for a woman. According to ancient sources, she achieved her success by plotting against her brother, the emperor Caligula, murdering her husband, the emperor Claudius, and controlling her son, the emperor Nero, by sleeping with him. Modern scholars tend to accept this verdict. But in his dynamic biography-the first on Agrippina in English-Anthony Barrett paints a startling new picture of this influential woman. Drawing on the latest archaeological, numismatic, and historical evidence, Barrett argues that Agrippina has been misjudged. Although she was ambitious, says Barrett, she made her way through ability and determination rather than by sexual allure, and her political contributions to her time seem to have been positive. After Agrippina's marriage to Claudius there was a marked decline in the number of judicial executions and there was close cooperation between the Senate and the emperor; the settlement of Cologne, founded under her aegis, was a model of social harmony; and the first five years of Nero's reign, while she was still alive, were the most enlightened of his rule. According to Barrett, Agrippina's one real failing was her relationship with her son, the monster of her own making who had her murdered in horrific and violent circumstances. Agrippina's impact was so lasting, however, that for some 150 years after her death no woman in the imperial family dared assume an assertive political role. ; 330 pages
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Batstone, William W. & Cynthia Damon CAESAR'S CIVIL WAR
Oxford University Press 2006 019516511X / 9780195165111 Paperback Very Good with no dust jacket
Scholar's name to half-title (Robert Brown). Minor crease to spine. Light shelfwear. ; Caesar's Civil War, the story of the general's contest with the Pompeian party through nineteen months of civil war, is an unfinished masterpiece. The author abandoned it when he found himself living in a different world than that which saw its commencement. The narrative ends after Pompey's death, amidst the preliminaries to the Alexandrian war that initiated the next phase of the fight for primacy of Rome. The work shows the brilliance for which Caesar's oratory, like his generalship, was known: it was a political judgment, not a literary one, that relegated the Civil War to the file drawer. The primary topics covered in this introductory book are the generic background of Caesar's commentarii or notebooks; his selection of material; the contemporary context of the civil war; the literary techniques that carry the story; and the work's characterization and structure. General aids to the reader include maps to accompany the particular narrative events discussed, a timeline of Caesar's life and the civil war, explanations of technical terms of Roman history, and a section on Roman names and prominent persons of Caesar's time. ; Oxford Approaches to Classical Literature; 240 pages
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Beacham, Richard C. SPECTACLE ENTERTAINMENTS OF EARLY IMPERIAL ROME
Yale University Press 1999 0300073828 / 9780300073829 Hardcover Fine in Fine dust jacket
DJ in mylar. ; The spectacles of Imperial Rome, the religious festivals, public games, circus, animal hunts, processions and dramas, were used by emperors and politicians to convey ideologies and political policies and to test public opinion. Just as Octavian sought to gain and sway public opinion after the assassination of Caesar, so Nero held many banquets and dramatic events to ensure and maintain his popularity. Richard Beacham draws on the early Imperial accounts of Dio, Tacitus and Suetonius, as well as archaeological evidence, to trace the changes in these entertainments throughout the period; he discusses the information they contain for a better understanding of a range of policies and activities in Early Imperial Rome. ; 306 pages
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Beacham, Richard C. SPECTACLE ENTERTAINMENTS OF EARLY IMPERIAL ROME
Yale University Press 1999 0300073828 / 9780300073829 Hardcover Fine in Fine dust jacket
DJ in mylar. ; The spectacles of Imperial Rome, the religious festivals, public games, circus, animal hunts, processions and dramas, were used by emperors and politicians to convey ideologies and political policies and to test public opinion. Just as Octavian sought to gain and sway public opinion after the assassination of Caesar, so Nero held many banquets and dramatic events to ensure and maintain his popularity. Richard Beacham draws on the early Imperial accounts of Dio, Tacitus and Suetonius, as well as archaeological evidence, to trace the changes in these entertainments throughout the period; he discusses the information they contain for a better understanding of a range of policies and activities in Early Imperial ROme. ; 306 pages
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Beard, Mary & Michael Crawford ROME IN THE LATE REPUBLIC
Ithaca Cornell University Press 1985 0801418240 / 9780801418242 First Edition Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Bump to upper edge of rear board else book is fine. Creasing to upper edge of rear panel of DJ with some sticker residue. DJ in mylar. ; 8vo; 106 pages; What were the reasons for the Roman revolution, wherein a republican form of government that had endured for centuries suddenly gave way, after civil war, to a dictatorship, which eventually dissolved under the peaceful sway of an autocratic principate? When did the process of change begin, what were its significant stages, and how are we to make sense of it? These are some of the questions addressed by two able scholars in this remarkably concise and accomplished survey of the history of the late Roman Republic. Setting themselves the challenging goal of making the first century comprehensible in twentieth-century terms, Mary Beard and Michael Crawford outline the factors that must be assessed for a proper understanding of the period-- from the attitudes of the aristocracy and the role of the state religion to the function of political institutions, and the reasons for imperial expansion. They offer no simple explanations, but instead supply a descriptive framework that clarifies a mass of conflicting and fragmentary evidence. Ideal for both introductory and graduate courses in the later Roman Republic, this book will make stimulating and provocative reading for anyone interested in the history of ancient Rome. From the Index: 1. The Nature of the Problem 2.The Cultural Horizons of the Aristocracy 3. Religion 4. Political Institutions 5. The Working of Politics 6. Rome and the Outside World
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Beard, Mary & Michael Crawford ROME IN THE LATE REPUBLIC
Ithaca Cornell University Press 1985 0801493331 / 9780801493331 Softcover Very Good
Light rubbin to wraps with a bit of colour loss. Scholar's name to titlepage (Robert Brown). ; 8vo; 106 pages; What were the reasons for the Roman revolution, wherein a republican form of government that had endured for centuries suddenly gave way, after civil war, to a dictatorship, which eventually dissolved under the peaceful sway of an autocratic principate? When did the process of change begin, what were its significant stages, and how are we to make sense of it? These are some of the questions addressed by two able scholars in this remarkably concise and accomplished survey of the history of the late Roman Republic. Setting themselves the challenging goal of making the first century comprehensible in twentieth-century terms, Mary Beard and Michael Crawford outline the factors that must be assessed for a proper understanding of the period-- from the attitudes of the aristocracy and the role of the state religion to the function of political institutions, and the reasons for imperial expansion. They offer no simple explanations, but instead supply a descriptive framework that clarifies a mass of conflicting and fragmentary evidence. Ideal for both introductory and graduate courses in the later Roman Republic, this book will make stimulating and provocative reading for anyone interested in the history of ancient Rome. From the Index: 1. The Nature of the Problem 2.The Cultural Horizons of the Aristocracy 3. Religion 4. Political Institutions 5. The Working of Politics 6. Rome and the Outside World
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Beard, Mary & Michael Crawford ROME IN THE LATE REPUBLIC
Ithaca Cornell University Press 1985 0801418240 / 9780801418242 First Edition Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Very light shelfwear. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). ; 8vo; 106 pages; What were the reasons for the Roman revolution, wherein a republican form of government that had endured for centuries suddenly gave way, after civil war, to a dictatorship, which eventually dissolved under the peaceful sway of an autocratic principate? When did the process of change begin, what were its significant stages, and how are we to make sense of it? These are some of the questions addressed by two able scholars in this remarkably concise and accomplished survey of the history of the late Roman Republic. Setting themselves the challenging goal of making the first century comprehensible in twentieth-century terms, Mary Beard and Michael Crawford outline the factors that must be assessed for a proper understanding of the period-- from the attitudes of the aristocracy and the role of the state religion to the function of political institutions, and the reasons for imperial expansion. They offer no simple explanations, but instead supply a descriptive framework that clarifies a mass of conflicting and fragmentary evidence. Ideal for both introductory and graduate courses in the later Roman Republic, this book will make stimulating and provocative reading for anyone interested in the history of ancient Rome. From the Index: 1. The Nature of the Problem 2.The Cultural Horizons of the Aristocracy 3. Religion 4. Political Institutions 5. The Working of Politics 6. Rome and the Outside World
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Becker, Audrey LES RELATIONS DIPLOMATIQUES ROMANO-BARBARES EN OCCIDENT AU VE SIÈCLE Acteurs, Fonctions, Modalités
De Boccard 2013 2701803411 / 9782701803418 Paperback Very Good+
Faint crease to lower front corner else very light shelfwear. ; Au Ve siècle de notre ère, l’arrivée de peuplades barbares sur le territoire de l’Empire romain d’Occident modifie largement les rapports de force? : l’Empire doit désormais composer avec des partenaires sur son propre sol. Si la guerre permet encore des victoires dans la première moitié du siècle, la diplomatie est peu à peu privilégiée par les autorités impériales pour tenter d’éviter la dislocation de l’Empire face à l’essor de royaumes barbares sur son territoire ou ses frontières. Dans un monde désormais multipolaire où la puissance romaine n’est plus hégémonique, la figure de l’ambassadeur se révèle centrale. Le succès de ses missions diplomatiques dépend de ses capacités d’adaptation face à des interlocuteurs barbares, avec lesquels il faut dorénavant compter. Cette étude porte aussi bien sur les critères de choix des ambassadeurs, romains comme barbares, que sur l’élaboration de pratiques diplomatiques communes: comment et par qui les ambassadeurs étaient-ils désignés? ? Quelles étaient leurs compétences? ? Comment étaient-ils pris en charge lors de leurs missions? ? Comment les rencontres diplomatiques se déroulaient-elles et comment les traités étaient-ils conclus? ? L’enquête révèle en outre, le rôle de conseiller joué à la cour des rois barbares par les anciennes élites provinciales et l’influence qu’elles exercèrent ainsi sur les pratiques diplomatiques de ces rois. En s’intéressant à la manière dont les relations romano-barbares se construisent au Ve siècle, ce livre livre éclaire les origines de la diplomatie en Europe au Haut Moyen Age. ; Collections De L'Université De Strasbourg. Études D'Archéologie Et D'Histoire Ancienne; 391 pages
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Bessone, Federica & Ermanno Malaspina (A Cura Di) POLITICA E CULTURA IN ROMA ANTICA Atti Dell'incontro Di Studio in Ricordo Di Italo Lana, Torino, 16-17 Ottobre 2003
Pàtron Editore 2005 Softcover Very Good
Light edgewear along top edge with 1 small closed tear (1 cm) to wraps. ; Contents: L’Atreus di Accio e il mito del tiranno. Osservazioni in margine a uno studio di Ialo Lana - Strenui militi set boni imperatoris officia simul exequi. Cenni sulla “ideologia” del condottiero nella letteratura romana - le philosophe et le légionnaire: l’armée comme thème et métaphore dans la pensée romaine, de Lucrèce à Marc Aurèle - il difficile rapporto fra teoria e pratica nella cultura romana - mestieri, professioni, lavoro in Orazio fra tradizione letteraria e realtà romana - la Roma di Seneca - esibizione di cultura e successo politico nel Tardoantico - la controversia de ara Victoriae del 384 d. C. Nell’età sua e nella riflessione dei moderni. ; Università Degli Studi Di Torino. Pub. Del Dipartimento Di Filologia Linguistica E Tradizione Classica "Augusto Rostagni" 22; 171 pages; Isbn: 8855528289
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Bicknell, P. J. STUDIES IN ATHENIAN POLITICS AND GENEALOGY
Franz Steiner Verlag 1972 Softcover Very Good-
Minor browning to wraps. Rubbing to extremities. Minor wear to corners. Base of spine is bumped. Spine wrap is slightly torn along one side (3cm) ; Essays on: Kleisthenes as Politician; an Exploration; leobotes Alkmeonos and Alkmeon Aristonymou; Kallias Kratiou; Perikles' Wife; Isagoras I and Isagoras II; Isodike; Alkibiades of Phegous; Double representation in the strategia at Athens; ; Historia : Einzelschriften ; Heft 19; 112 pages
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Bicknell, P. J. STUDIES IN ATHENIAN POLITICS AND GENEALOGY
Franz Steiner Verlag 1972 Softcover Very Good
Minor wear to corners. Spine is browned. Light creasing to wraps. ; Essays on: Kleisthenes as Politician; an Exploration; leobotes Alkmeonos and Alkmeon Aristonymou; Kallias Kratiou; Perikles' Wife; Isagoras I and Isagoras II; Isodike; Alkibiades of Phegous; Double representation in the strategia at Athens; ; Historia : Einzelschriften ; Heft 19; 112 pages
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Blösel, Wolfgang & Winfried Schmitz & Gunnar Seelentag & Jan Timmer GRENZEN POLITISCHER PARTIZIPATION IM KLASSISCHEN GRIECHENLAND
Franz Steiner Verlag 2014 3515108971 / 9783515108973 Paperback Fine
Das Ausmaß der Teilhabe an der Herstellung kollektiv verbindlicher Entscheidungen ist ein wichtiges Kriterium bei der Analyse politischer Systeme. Das klassische Griechenland und insbesondere die attische Demokratie gelten vielen dabei als Beispiele für Gemeinwesen, in denen die Bürger starken Einfluss auf die Politik nehmen konnten. Gleichwohl waren die Möglichkeiten, an politischen Entscheidungen mitzuwirken, nicht unbeschränkt. Es gab auch hier Grenzen politischer Partizipation. Die Beiträge des Sammelbandes untersuchen beispielhaft an verschiedenen Gesellschaften des archaischen und klassischen Griechenlands Formen und Folgen der Exklusion vom politischen Entscheidungshandeln. Dabei steht im Zentrum der Beiträge die Frage, wie sich der Grad der Partizipationschance zur Legitimität der Entscheidung auf der einen, ihrer Qualität auf der anderen Seite verhielt. ; Alte Geschichte; 124 pages
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