Oxford University Press, 2022. — 552 p. Imagery and iconography served specific functions in public, private, and ritual spheres in the Roman world. State-sanctioned imagery communicated politically charged ideas through an often-complex pictorial language, composed of emblems and attributes that signaled aspects of policy. In the private sphere, imagery communicated ethnic,...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 328 p. Disorienting Empire is the first book to examine Republican Latin poetry's recurring interest in characters who become lost. Basil Dufallo explains the prevalence of this theme with reference to the rapid expansion of Rome's empire in the Middle and Late Republic. It was both a threatening and an enticing prospect, Dufallo argues, to...
Brill, 2022. — 256 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 456; Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 456). This book changes our understanding of the Roman conceptions about the sea by placing the focus on shipwrecks as events that act as bridges between the sea and the land. The study explores the different Roman legal definitions of these spaces, and...
Routledge, 2022. — 352 p. Pliny and the Eruption of Vesuvius is a forensic examination of two of the most famous letters from the ancient Mediterranean world: Pliny the Younger’s Epistulae 6.16 and 6.20, which offer a contemporary account of the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79. These letters, sent to the historian Tacitus, provide accounts by Pliny the Younger about what happened...
Walter de Gruyter, 2021. — 294 p. The focus of this volume is on the aesthetics, semantics and function of materials in Roman antiquity between the 2nd century B.C. and the 2nd century A.D. It includes contributions on both architectural spaces (and their material design) and objects – types of 'artefacts' that differ greatly in the way they were used, perceived and loaded with...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 300 p. This book explores the many strategies by which elite Greeks and Romans resisted the cultural and political hegemony of the Roman Empire in ways that avoided direct confrontation or simple warfare. By resistance is meant a range of responses including 'opposition', 'subversion', 'antagonism', 'dissent', and 'criticism' within a...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 272 p. This volume approaches the broad topic of wonder in the works of Tacitus, encompassing paradox, the marvellous and the admirable. Recent scholarship on these themes in Roman literature has tended to focus on poetic genres, with comparatively little attention paid to historiography: Tacitus, whose own judgments on what is worthy of note have...
Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 346 p. In this book, Maggie Popkin offers an in-depth investigation of souvenirs, a type of ancient Roman object that has been understudied and that is unfamiliar to many people. Souvenirs commemorated places, people, and spectacles in the Roman Empire. Straddling the spheres of religion, spectacle, leisure, and politics, they serve as a...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019. — 360 p. Warfare is one of the defining elements that drove the development of the city of Rome from a small territory into a Mediterranean Empire. Religion is identified as having played an important part in this. Never done before, this book undertakes a survey of all rituals, and religious institutions in a broader sense, along with discourses...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 326 p. World and Hour in Roman Minds: Exploratory Essays seeks to penetrate Romans' consciousness of space and time, aspects of antiquity currently attracting intense interest. Historian Richard Talbert presents here a cohesive selection of nineteen essays, published over the course of thirty years, all but one previously appearing in widely...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 592 p. M. Fabius Quintilianus was a prominent orator, declaimer, and teacher of eloquence in the first century ce. After his retirement he wrote the Institutio oratoria, a unique treatise in Antiquity because it is a handbook of rhetoric and an educational treatise in one. Quintilian’s fame and influence are not only based on the Institutio, but...
М.: Наука, 1985. — 432 с. Двухтомник по истории культуры древнего Рима – первый в советской историографии обобщающий груд, в котором римская культура в целом предстает как определенный исторический феномен, тесно связанный с эволюцией социально-экономического базиса. В 1-м томе освещаются политические, научные, религиозные, юридические представления римлян, вопросы...
М.: Наука, 1985. — 400 с. Во втором томе рассматриваются некоторые аспекты римской культуры в целом, дается характеристика отдельных регионов римского мира (Галлии, дунайских провинций, Малой Азии, Египта) и исследуется проблема взаимодействия и синтеза римской и местных культур – влияние Рима на провинции (романизация) и провинций на Рим (варваризация, эллинизация,...
Изд. 2-е. — М.: Просвещение, 1965. — 400 с. Памятники римской литературы послужили примером для многих европейских писателей. Античных писателей стали называть римским словом «классики», обозначающим «первоклассные, образцовые». Творения Вергилия, Горация, Овидия навсегда вошли в сокровищницу мировой литературы. Рассказ об этих писателях позволит понять многие явления...
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