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| Author | : Edith Hamilton |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 154 |
| Release | : 2017-07-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0393634558 |
"No one in modern times has shown us more vividly than Edith Hamilton 'the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome.'" —New York Times In this now-classic history of Roman civilization, Edith Hamilton vividly depicts Roman life and spirit as they are revealed by the greatest writers of the age. Among these literary guides are Cicero, who left an incomparable collection of letters; Catullus, who was the quintessential poet of love; Horace, who chronicled a cruel and materialistic Rome; and the Romantics: Virgil, Livy, and Seneca. Hamilton concludes her work by contrasting the high-mindedness of Stoicism with the collapse of values as witnessed by the historian Tacitus and the satirist Juvenal.
| Author | : Edith Hamilton |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 2010-10-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0393081869 |
Edith Hamilton buoyantly captures the spirit and achievements of the Greek civilization for our modern world. In The Greek Way, Edith Hamilton captures with "Homeric power and simplicity" (New York Times) the spirit of the golden age of Greece in the fifth century BC, the time of its highest achievements. She explores the Greek aesthetics of sculpture and writing and the lack of ornamentation in both. She examines the works of Homer, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Euripides, among others; the philosophy of Socrates and Plato’s role in preserving it; the historical accounts by Herodotus and Thucydides on the Greek wars with Persia and Sparta and by Xenophon on civilized living.
| Author | : Steele Brand |
| Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Total Pages | : 393 |
| Release | : 2019-09-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1421429861 |
A sweeping political and cultural history, Killing for the Republic closes with a compelling argument in favor of resurrecting the citizen-soldier ideal in modern America.
| Author | : Edith Hamilton |
| Publisher | : Random House Value Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 488 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Elaine Steane |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2009-12-01 |
| Genre | : Oxfordshire (England) |
| ISBN | : 9781874192022 |
| Author | : Don Nardo |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 116 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781560066798 |
Explains how the discipline, courage, and preparation of the Roman soldier combined with the strategies and tactics of his commander and the organization of the military establishment resulted in the conquest of many lands for the Roman Empire.
| Author | : Emma Southon |
| Publisher | : Abrams |
| Total Pages | : 229 |
| Release | : 2021-03-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 164700232X |
An entertaining and informative look at the unique culture of crime, punishment, and killing in Ancient Rome In Ancient Rome, all the best stories have one thing in common—murder. Romulus killed Remus to found the city, Caesar was assassinated to save the Republic. Caligula was butchered in the theater, Claudius was poisoned at dinner, and Galba was beheaded in the Forum. In one 50-year period, 26 emperors were murdered. But what did killing mean in a city where gladiators fought to the death to sate a crowd? In A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Emma Southon examines a trove of real-life homicides from Roman history to explore Roman culture, including how perpetrator, victim, and the act itself were regarded by ordinary people. Inside Ancient Rome's darkly fascinating history, we see how the Romans viewed life, death, and what it means to be human.
| Author | : John E. Stambaugh |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 420 |
| Release | : 1988-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780801836923 |
A synthesis of recent work in archaeology and social history, drawing on physical, literary, and documentary sources.
| Author | : Paul Veyne |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780674777712 |
This compact book--which appeared earlier in the multivolume series A History of Private Life--is a history of the Roman Empire in pagan times. It is an interpretation setting forth in detail the universal civilization of the Romans--so much of it Hellenic--that later gave way to Christianity. The civilization, culture, literature, art, and even religion of Rome are discussed in this masterly work by a leading scholar.
| Author | : Arthur Keaveney |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 327 |
| Release | : 2007-05-16 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1134159005 |
The Roman Revolution is one of the most momentous periods of change in history, in which an imperial but quasidemocratic power changed into an autocracy. This book studies the way the Roman army changed in the last eighty years of the Republic, so that an army of imperial conquest became transformed into a set of rival personal armies under the control of the triumvirs. It emphasizes the development of what has often been regarded as a static monolithic institution, and its centrality to political change.
