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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Vespasian"”.
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The role and character of the praetorian guard and the praetorian prefecture until the accession of Vespasian
… the battle of Actium and the accession of Vespasian. This necessitates not only a consideration of those political activities which the Praetorians undertook at the behest of their emperors but also an examination into the motivations of the guardsmen themselves. Moreover, any study of the …
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From hostage to historian: Josephus, the emperors, and the city of Rome
… Josephus and each of the Flavian emperors-Vespasian, Titus, and Domitian-individually, this study seeks to explore the nature of these relationships more comprehensively than has been done in the past. This aim of comprehensiveness is achieved in part by beginning not with Josephus' arrival …
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While Rome Burned: Fire, Leadership, and Urban Disaster in the Roman Cultural Imagination
… the unprecedented destruction of 64 CE; and Vespasian, founder of the Flavian dynasty, came to power in 69 CE, after Rome had been ravaged by the violent (and incendiary) Year of Four Emperors. Each ruler, in his own way, worked to equate his restoration of Rome after disaster, which included …
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De Lingua Sabina: A Reappraisal of the Sabine Glosses
… the Empire, when emperors such as Claudius and Vespasian utilised their (supposed) Sabine heritage to gain ideological capital. In light of this, the phenomenon of Sabine glosses cannot be seen as one man’s interest, but as a means of reflecting on Rome’s relations with Sabellic-speaking Italy.
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New senses and formations in Old English glosses and translations, with particular reference to the psalter and the gospels
… The psalter texts comprise the gloss on The Vespasian Psalter, the gloss on The Regius Psalter, and the prose translation in The Paris Psalter. The gospel texts comprise the gloss on The Lindisfarne Gospels, the gloss on The Rushworth Gospels, and the prose translation in the manuscript …
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Nature, imperialism, and the ethics of war in Flavian epic
This dissertation argues that Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica, Silius Italicus’ Punica, and Papinius Statius’ Thebaid use human encounters with nature to reflect on the morality of their poems’ central characters. Interactions and conflicts with nature occur at programmatic points in the poems, …