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  • Roma Victa

    Rome's way of dealing with defeat

    Series series History (R0)
    The history of the Roman Republic was a military success story. Texts, monuments and rituals commemorated Rome's victories, and this emphasis on its own triumphs formed a basis for the Roman nobility's claim to leadership. However, the Romans also suffered numerous heavy defeats during the Republic. This study is the first to comprehensively examine how Rome's defeats at the hands of the Celts, ... Leer más

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  • Roma victa

    Von Roms Umgang mit Niederlagen

    Series series J.B. Metzler Humanities (German Language)
    Die Geschichte der römischen Republik war eine militärische Erfolgsgeschichte. Texte, Monumente und Rituale erinnerten an die Siege Roms, und diese Betonung der eigenen Triumphe bildete eine Grundlage des Führungsanspruchs der römischen Nobilität. Allerdings erlitten die Römer in der Zeit der Republik auch zahlreiche schwere Niederlagen. Die Studie untersucht erstmals umfassend, wie Roms ... Leer más

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  • Geschichte wird von den Besiegten geschrieben

    Darstellung und Deutung militärischer Niederlagen in Antike und Mittelalter

    Series Libro 20 - Krieg und Konflikt
    Nach einem geflügelten Wort wird die »Geschichte von den Siegern geschrieben«. Demgegenüber steht die These Reinhart Kosellecks, dass Niederlagen und ihre Verarbeitung die Entstehung von Erklärungs- und Kompensationsmustern bedingen: Die Erfahrung des Besiegtwerdens könne einen »Erfahrungsgewinn« ermöglichen; Sieger hingegen müssten ihre Denkmodelle nicht hinterfragen, da sie gerade durch ... Leer más

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    The Untold Story of Drusus the Elder, Conqueror of Germania

    "The first biography of an important personality from the beginnings of Rome's empire" (Graham Sumner, coauthor of Arms and Armour of the Imperial Roman Soldier).Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus (Drusus the Elder) was the first conqueror of Germania (the Netherlands and Germany) and one of ancient Rome's most beloved military heroes. Yet there has never been a full volume dedicated to his ... Leer más

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  • Augustus at War

    The Struggle for the Pax Augusta

    A penetrating assessment of Augustus as ancient Rome's military commander-in-chief.The words Pax Augusta—or Pax Romana—evoke a period of uninterrupted peace across the vast Roman Empire. Lindsay Powell exposes this as a fallacy. Almost every year between 31 BC and AD 14 the Roman Army was in action somewhere, either fighting enemies beyond the frontier in punitive raids or for outright conquest; ... Leer más

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  • Roman Republics

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Rome's Vestal Virgins

    Comprehensive and thoroughly up-to-date, this volume offers a brand new analysis of the Vestal Virgins’ ritual function in Roman religion.Undertaking a detailed and careful analysis of ancient literary sources, Wildfang argues that the Vestals’ virginity must be understood on a variety of different levels and provides a solution to the problem of the Vestals’ peculiar legal status in ancient Rome ... Leer más

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  • Politics in the Roman Republic

    Series series Key Themes in Ancient History
    The politics of the Roman Republic has in recent decades been the subject of intense debate, covering issues such as the degree of democracy and popular influence, 'parties' and ideology, politics as public ritual, and the character of Rome's political culture. This engaging book examines all these issues afresh, and presents an original synthesis of Rome's political institutions and practices. It ... Leer más

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  • The Patrician Tribune

    Publius Clodius Pulcher

    Series series Studies in the History of Greece and Rome
    Publius Clodius Pulcher was a prominent political figure during the last years of the Roman Republic. Born into an illustrious patrician family, his early career was sullied by military failures and especially by the scandal that resulted from his allegedly disguising himself as a woman in order to sneak into a forbidden religious ceremony in the hope of seducing Caesar’s wife. Clodius survived ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Cicero

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    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Cicero was one of classical antiquity's most prolific, varied and self-revealing authors. His letters, speeches, treatises and poetry chart a political career marked by personal struggle and failure and the collapse of the republican system of government to which he was intellectually and emotionally committed. They were read, studied and imitated throughout antiquity and subsequently became ... Leer más

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  • Murder Was Not a Crime

    Homicide and Power in the Roman Republic

    Series series Ashley and Peter Larkin Series in Greek and Roman Culture
    "Explore[s] with impressive scholarship cases of unlawful killing in the regnal period, the early and mid-republic and the post-Sullan era." —UNRV.comEmbarking on a unique study of Roman criminal law, Judy Gaughan has developed a novel understanding of the nature of social and political power dynamics in republican government. Revealing the significant relationship between political power and ... Leer más

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  • On Roman Religion

    Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome

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    Series Libro 67 - Cornell Studies in Classical Philology
    Provocative reading for anyone interested in Roman culture in the late Republic and early Empire.â• Religious Studies ReviewWas religious practice in ancient Rome cultic and hostile to individual expression? Or was there, rather, considerable latitude for individual initiative and creativity? Jörg Rüpke, one of the world’s leading authorities on Roman religion, demonstrates in his new book that it ... Leer más

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