Representations of War in Ancient Rome

Representations of War in Ancient Rome
Author: Sheila Dillon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2006-05-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0521848172

War suffused Roman life to a degree unparalleled in other ancient societies. Through a combination of obsessive discipline and frenzied (though carefully orchestrated) brutality, Rome's armies conquered most of the lands stretching from Scotland to Syria, and the Black Sea to Gibraltar. The place of war in Roman culture has been studied in historical terms, but this is the first book to examine the ways in which Romans represented war, in both visual imagery and in literary accounts. Audience reception and the reconstruction of display contexts are recurrent themes here, as is the language of images: a language that is sometimes explicit and at other times allusive in its representation of war. The chapters encompass a wide variety of art media (architecture, painting, sculpture, building, relief, coin), and they focus on the towering period of Roman power and international influence: the 3rd century B.C. to the 2nd century A.D.

The Cambridge World History of Violence: Volume 1, The Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds

The Cambridge World History of Violence: Volume 1, The Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds
Author: Garrett G. Fagan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-03-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108882900

The first in a four-volume set, The Cambridge World History of Violence, Volume 1 provides a comprehensive examination of violence in prehistory and the ancient world. Covering the Palaeolithic through to the end of classical antiquity, the chapters take a global perspective spanning sub-Saharan Africa, the Near East, Europe, India, China, Japan and Central America. Unlike many previous works, this book does not focus only on warfare but examines violence as a broader phenomenon. The historical approach complements, and in some cases critiques, previous research on the anthropology and psychology of violence in the human story. Written by a team of contributors who are experts in each of their respective fields, Volume 1 will be of particular interest to anyone fascinated by archaeology and the ancient world.

Staging the World

Staging the World
Author: Ida Ostenberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2009-05-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199215979

An illustrated study of the Roman triumphal procession, Ida Ostenberg analyses the stories the Roman triumph told about the defeated and the ideas it transmitted about Rome itself.

Imperial Projections

Imperial Projections
Author: Sandra R. Joshel
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2005-09-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780801882685

, Martin M. Winkler, and Maria Wyke--Peter Bondanella, Indiana University "Classical Outlook"

Citizens of Discord

Citizens of Discord
Author: Brian Breed
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2010-08-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199780226

Civil wars, more than other wars, sear themselves into the memory of societies that suffer them. This is particularly true at Rome, where in a period of 150 years the Romans fought four epochal wars against themselves. The present volume brings together exciting new perspectives on the subject by an international group of distinguished contributors. The basis of the investigation is broad, encompassing literary texts, documentary texts, and material culture, spanning the Greek and Roman worlds. Attention is devoted not only to Rome's four major conflicts from the period between the 80s BC and AD 69, but the frame extends to engage conflicts both previous and much later, as well as post-classical constructions of the theme of civil war at Rome. Divided into four sections, the first ("Beginnings, Endings") addresses the basic questions of when civil war began in Rome and when it ended. "Cycles" is concerned with civil war as a recurrent phenomenon without end. "Aftermath" focuses on attempts to put civil war in the past, or, conversely, to claim the legacy of past civil wars, for better or worse. Finally, the section "Afterlife" provides views of Rome's civil wars from more distant perspectives, from those found in Augustan lyric and elegy to those in much later post-classical literary responses. As a whole, the collection sheds new light on the ways in which the Roman civil wars were perceived, experienced, and represented across a variety of media and historical periods.

Imperial Ideals in the Roman West

Imperial Ideals in the Roman West
Author: Carlos F. Noreña
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 479
Release: 2011-06-23
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 1107005086

This book shows how the circulation of ideals associated with the Roman emperor generated ideological unification among aristocracies and reinforced Roman power.

Contested Triumphs

Contested Triumphs
Author: Miriam R. Pelikan Pittenger
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2009-02-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780520942776

This pathbreaking analysis of Roman political culture in the middle Republic focuses on the concerns of the Roman Senate as it decided whether or not to award a victorious general triumphal honors. Miriam R. Pelikan Pittenger's strikingly original approach illuminates this process by examining several Senate debates as reported by the historian Livy. The conduct of these debates illustrates the competitive ethos in the elite and mirrors creative tensions between the magistrates, the Senate, and the people of Rome. Contested Triumphs shows how Livy dramatized the process of history in the making and vividly demonstrates how it is the struggle itself that remains most vital.

Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography

Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2021-01-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004445080

Usages of the Past in Roman Historiography contains 11 articles on how the Ancient Roman historians used, and manipulated, the past. Key themes include the impact of autocracy, the nature of intertextuality, and the frontiers between history and other genres.

At the Crossroads of Greco-Roman History, Culture, and Religion

At the Crossroads of Greco-Roman History, Culture, and Religion
Author: Sinclair W. Bell
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2018-09-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789690145

Papers in honour of Carin M. C. Green (1948-2015) are presented under 3 headings: (1) Greek philosophy, history, and historiography; (2) Latin literature, history, and historiography; and (3) Greco-Roman material culture, religion, and literature

The Roman Empire at Bay, AD 180-395

The Roman Empire at Bay, AD 180-395
Author: David S. Potter
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 986
Release: 2014-01-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134694849

The Roman Empire at Bay is the only one volume history of the critical years 180-395 AD, which saw the transformation of the Roman Empire from a unitary state centred on Rome, into a new polity with two capitals and a new religion—Christianity. The book integrates social and intellectual history into the narrative, looking to explore the relationship between contingent events and deeper structure. It also covers an amazingly dramatic narrative from the civil wars after the death of Commodus through the conversion of Constantine to the arrival of the Goths in the Roman Empire, setting in motion the final collapse of the western empire. The new edition takes account of important new scholarship in questions of Roman identity, on economy and society as well as work on the age of Constantine, which has advanced significantly in the last decade, while recent archaeological and art historical work is more fully drawn into the narrative. At its core, the central question that drives The Roman Empire at Bay remains, what did it mean to be a Roman and how did that meaning change as the empire changed? Updated for a new generation of students, this book remains a crucial tool in the study of this period.