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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Roman history"”.
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Hero or Tyrant: Images of Julius Caesar in Selected Works from Vergil to Bruni
… Caesar is not only the most well-known figure in Roman history, but he is also one of the most difficult to understand. Since his assassination, Caesar has played an important role in discussions of political power, imperial government, tyranny, and tyrannicide. While there have been literary …
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Curating history: Roman approaches to the material past, c. 100 BC - AD 200
This thesis explores how the Romans constructed their past and what it looked like by using its material remains in the period from the first century BC to the second century AD. Using a combination of texts, objects, and images, I explore themes relevant to the modern fields of heritage studies …
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Epic of Civil War in Lucan, Statius and Silius Italicus
… war, a kind of conflict which, especially in Roman history, is characterised by cyclical recursiveness. The third chapter deals with the theological issue, as civil wars seem to deny the providential teleology, presided over by Jupiter, which traditionally sustains the unfolding of the epic …
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The semantic development of some Roman ethical concepts in the second century B.C. : based on contemporary literary epigraphical and numismatical evidence
In almost any general study of Roman history, references can be found to the character of the Roman people. Roman character forms the explanation of their conquests, the justification of their empire. Roman character and its resultant code of behaviour influenced early Christian writers; Roman …
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Constructing the Coast in Imperial Greek Periplography
… as a symbol of the territorial limitation of the Roman Empire. The thesis opens with an introduction surveying the history of scholarship and proposing a novel, *processual* approach to reading periplographic texts that foregrounds their common approach to the textual construction of the seacoast. …
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The Enemy Within: Combatants, Commanders, and Comparative Models in Julio-Claudian Recollections of Late Republican Civil War
… of late Republican Rome and episodes about non-Roman historical figures, which were drawn in Latin, and occasionally in Greek, literature composed throughout the Julio-Claudian period. I argue that these parallels provided a key apparatus through which writers active in the century between …
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Divus Augustus Pater: Tiberius and the charisma of Augustus
… Society I.241). No one can deny that Augustus' "Roman revolution," to borrow a phrase from Syme, required such charisma. But while other republican leaders had possessed the same quality (e.g. Marius, Sulla, Julius Caesar), Augustus' revolutionary measures, unlike theirs, outlived the charismatic …
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Memory in Roman Oratory: Theory and Practice
‘Memory in Roman Oratory: Theory and Practice’ challenges and changes current perceptions of the evolution and use of mnemonic techniques in the ancient world, especially Roman oratory. The field of ‘artificial’ memory is one to which cognitive science bears real relevance: this thesis combines …
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Iconoclasm in modern British drama
… and others, who, as their dramatization of history and its idols has shown, have much in common.Although the above playwrights and others were most active towards the end of the sixties and throughout the seventies, their assault, however, has not completely died away in the eighties. As I …
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Politics and the Past in the Age of Nerva and Trajan: The Making and Unmaking of Memories of Domitian, 96-117 CE.
… of the nature of imperial succession and the Roman principate more generally. Chapter 1 shows that the well-studied sanctions the senate passed against Domitian were just a first step of a complex process in which his memory was reshaped, through the production of new commemorative media, …
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Rethinking the Third Century CE: Contemporary Historiography and Political Narrative
… two problems. Firstly, Dio’s contemporary history survives only through Byzantine epitomes and excerpts. Its irreparable alteration means that Dio’s later books cannot be treated in their own terms, but have to be contextualised against the wider thematic framework of his thousand-year …
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The Second Roman Revolution: A Study in Religious Policy from 250-325 C.E.
… century and the early fourth century in the Roman Empire was a period of profound change. The Romans struggled with several internal crises as well as constant harassment from foreign enemies. Because of this downturn, several emperors attempted to consolidate more control over several areas, …
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Language and the politics of Roman identity
… examines the relationship between language and Roman identity, defined in the broadest sense as the political and cultural practices involved in being Roman. It focuses on evidence of multilingualism: Roman identity was defined through opposition and interaction, and it is at points of contact …
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Standing by the standards: military rank and social status in the Roman west from Augustus to Diocletian
… military and civil society in the time of the Roman Principate. It is about making sense of the tensions experienced by the soldiers and veterans of the Roman army between their lives as milites and as cives. This thesis weaves soldiers and veterans back into the wider social fabric of the …
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Les cultes isiaques dans la péninsule Ibérique. Contribution à l'étude du phénomène isiaque dans l'Occident méditerranéen
En 1967, dans son ouvrage plus largement consacré aux religions orientales dans l'Espagne romaine, Antonio García y Bellido offrait une synthèse des cultes isiaques dans la péninsule Ibérique. Après lui, quelques savants ont tenté d'actualiser son catalogue, d'autres ont posé à la documentation de …
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Dio Chrysostom: a Philosopher in Civic Space
This thesis argues that Dio Chrysostom’s self-identification as a philosopher mattered a great deal more than what previous scholarship had suggested. Against the cultural and intellectual atmosphere of the first two centuries CE, it is argued that Dio had deliberately chosen to identify as a …
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Commanding Texts: Knowledge-ordering, Identity Construction and Ethics in 'Military Manuals’ of the Roman Empire
… and ethics in 'military manuals’ of the Roman Empire By Daniel Alexandru Chiritoiu This thesis is about ‘military manuals’ produced in the first few centuries of the Roman imperial period. It argues that these texts merit far more attention and appreciation than they have received in the …