... shepherds Armenia Britain Demeter Isis Boreas kite Council of the early Imperial Rome Augustus Seneca the Elder Controversies Nero Moral Epistles Musonius Silvae Martial Quintilian The imperial age of Rome begins with the death of Augustus (14 c.e.) and continues arguably until...

... larger populations, and in Han China the city of Chang'an may have had as many as 200,000 inhabitants. However, in the period covered by the study only the population of early imperial Rome grew to about one million. In many pre-modern states, state-sponsored migration to colonies established in newly...

... Horden P irrigation land late antiquity Malthus T R meat Purcell N Africa North colonate Greece income per capita Italy Spain Cameron Alan Cyrenaica metal ores money Monte Testaccio De Martino F McCormick M Rostovtzeff M I Roman Empire Imperial Rome Roman economy Roman history...

...Imperial Rome has a name for wealth and luxury, but was the economy of the Roman Empire as a whole a success, by the standards of pre-modern economies? This book includes chapters on this much-argued subject, with additional comments to bring them up to date. A new study of poverty and destitution...

... written by contemporaries reflect the real hostility that he provoked, but also the emergence of negative depictions of men in government, drawn from recent history but also from imperial Rome. Augustinians Benedictines Cistercians Crusades Gerald of Wales author archdeacon of Brecon general Henry...

...Women's lack of access to public life in Republican and Imperial Rome, and its effect on their use of language are discussed. Women's education and the evidence for women's verse-writing are examined. Cornificia's epigrams and her relationship with the circle of Catullus, Ovid's evidence for a poet...

..., and Alcuin, to name only the best known. This book provides an account of the nature and holdings of Anglo-Saxon libraries from the 6th century to the 11th. The early chapters discuss libraries in antiquity, notably at Alexandria and republican and imperial Rome, and also the Christian libraries of late...

...Variation in the everyday diet of people in Imperial Rome cannot be captured by historical records alone and requires synthesis of archaeological context and biochemical data from human skeletons. This chapter examines correlations between paleodietary isotope data and dental pathology frequencies...

... populus Romanus Vespasian Emp adventus senatus consulta civilis princeps mos maiorum pomerium imperator Roman imagery Republican Rome Imperial Rome Roman military The distinction that the Romans made between urbs and agri, between the city and what lay beyond...

... range of English and European Romantic sources, from Wordsworth to Goethe, Rousseau, and Madame de Staël. His portrayal of Imperial Rome was likewise based on early nineteenth-century representations of the city as, at the same time, museum and cosmopolitan stage. By means of these intertextualities...

... and the achievements of imperial Rome which served as a touchstone for succeeding western empire builders. This chapter also considers the causes of the collapse of Roman Britain and its implications for the study of empires. Claudius Strabo Verica Caratacus Cassius Dio Togodumnus Gibbon Edward Roman Empire...

... licenses Cola di Rienzo Orvieto cathedral at popolo romano Vespasian Colosseum Via Sacra Augustus imperial Rome Casa Romuli medieval Rome civic government preservation as political strategy The innovations made for the preservation of antiquity in Renaissance Rome did not originate in a vacuum...

... expanding colonial and commercial contacts—especially in the eastern Mediterranean—brought exotic experiences back to the Greeks. This gave rise to Greek writing on natural history. Meanwhile, the rise of imperial Rome meant that exotic fauna found themselves inextricably linked with the self-image...

...One of the most important monuments of Imperial Rome and at the same time one of the most poorly understood, the Column of Marcus Aurelius has long stood in the shadow of the Column of Trajan. This book makes a thorough study of the form, content, and meaning of this infrequently studied monument...

...This chapter discusses the war in imperial Rome. The legions in the Principate were highly protected assets, even during an aggressive advance. It is observed that tactical victory on one field did not offer Romans control of the area. Few Roman opponents benefitted from the relatively infrequent...

... is primarily concerned with the last two, since they had something special to say about welfare. Epicureanism was the first major ideology that put forward taxonomy of needs for welfare, while Stoicism became the dominant ideology of imperial Rome. Athens Epicureanism Graeco Roman period Rome Stoicism...

...This chapter explores the portraits, statues, and triumphal arches in Imperial Rome. Rome’s growing military and political ascendance throughout the Mediterranean during the third and second centuries bc coincided with significant artistic developments in the realm of portraiture...

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