Author: Harriet I. Flower
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: republics, roman
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2009-08-24
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 069114043X
ISBN-13: 9780691140438

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 interpretation of republican chronology. Radically challenging the traditional picture of a single monolithic republic, she argues that there were multiple republics, each with its own clearly distinguishable s

Author: Roger B. Ulrich
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: woodworking, roman
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2007-01-02
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0300103417
ISBN-13: 9780300103410

This book presents an authoritative and detailed survey of the art of woodworking in the ancient Roman world. Illustrated with over 200 line drawings and photographs, Roman Woodworking covers topics such as the training and guild memberships of Roman carpenters, woodworking tools and techniques, the role of timber in construction and the availability of trees, and interior woodwork and furniture making. It also includes an extensive glossary of fully defined terms.This comprehensive book displays the accomplishment of the Roman woodworkers and their high skill and knowledge of materials and to

Author: Ronald Syme
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: revolution, roman
Number of Pages: 592
Published: 2002-08-22
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0192803204
ISBN-13: 9780192803207

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 unconventional narrative, which quotes from ancient evidence, refers seldomly to modern authorities, and states controversial opinions quite openly. The result is a book which is both fresh and compelling.

Author: Paul Keller
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: roman, ich, vom, ferien
Number of Pages: 370
Published: 2009-07-18
List price: $31.75
ISBN-10: 1113111321
ISBN-13: 9781113111326

Author: Norbert Scheuer
Publisher: C.H.Beck
Keywords: roman, flussabwã¤rts
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 2002-08-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 3406493122
ISBN-13: 9783406493126

Author: G. M. A. Grube
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc
Keywords: critics, roman, greek
Number of Pages: 372
Published: 1995-03
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0872203107
ISBN-13: 9780872203105

During the thousand years that separate Homer from Plotinus, the Greeks and Romans not only created two great literatures and most of our literary genres, they also developed theories of literature and methods of criticism. These, though very different from our own, have nevertheless greatly influenced modem thinking, especially during the early centuries of our modern literatures. Poets like Pindar, Aristophanes, and Horace, philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, and Philodemus, orators like Cicero and Quintillian, literary scholars like Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Longinus, all of these have

Author: Augusto Fraschetti
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: women, roman
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1999-04-01
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0226260941
ISBN-13: 9780226260945

This collection of essays features important Roman women who were active in politics, theater, cultural life, and religion from the first through the fourth centuries. The contributors draw on rare documents in an attempt to reconstruct in detail the lives and accomplishments of these exceptional women, a difficult task considering that the Romans recorded very little about women. They thought it improper for a woman’s virtues to be praised outside the home. Moreover, they believed that a feeble intellect, a weakness in character, and a general incompetence prevented a woman from partici