Routledge, 2015. — 374 p. Religious Dissent in the Roman Empire is the third installment in Vasily Rudich’s trilogy on the psychology of discontent in the Roman Empire at the time of Nero. Unlike his earlier books, it deals not with political dissidence, but with religious dissent, especially in its violent form. Against the broad background of Second Temple Judaism and...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2021. — 206 p. — (Philippika: Altertumswissenschaftliche Abhandlungen/Contributions to the Study of Ancient World Cultures 152). For Rome and the Romans alike, the Roman civil wars brought about the end of an era. They also reconfigured Roman identity for good. The clash between factions prompted a fratricidal struggle, leading to citizens fighting...
Turner, 2019. — 304 p. Explore all of the murder, madness and mayhem in Ancient Rome during the reign of the mad emperor, Caligula. In this book about Rome’s most infamous emperor, expert author, Stephen Dando-Collins’ chronicles all the palace intrigues and murders that led to Caligula becoming emperor, and details the horrors of his manic reign and the murderous consequences...
Tübingen: M. Niemeyer, 1958. — 62 p. — (Ἀπαρχαί / Aparchai. Untersuchungen zur klassischen Philologie und Geschichte des Altertums 3). In der Geschichte des dritten nachchristlichen Jahrhunderts wird die Reihe der Soldatenkaiser von Valerianus und Gallienus, Vater und Sohn, unterbrochen. Waren jene Kaiser illyrischer Herkunft, so stammten die beiden genannten aus italischem...
Bruxelles: Latomus. Revue d'études latines, 1994. — 394 p. — (Collection Latomus 225). The focus of this commentary is historical and historiographical. It concentrates on assessing the usefulness and reliability of the Life for the historian and on considering how Suetonius works in creating his picture of Caligula. There is a bare minimum of philological and textual comment.
Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1993. — 252 p. — (American Classical Studies 32). The Life of Caligula is different from Suetonius' other Lives only because the number of "bad" rubrics so far outweighs the "good" and because the demarcation between them is so very clearly marked in the text: hactenus quasi de principe, reliqua ut de monstro narranda sunt. The number of "bad" rubrics...
2nd Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 80 p. — (LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History). This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series offers a generous selection of inscriptions from the Roman Empire during the period AD 14-117, with accompanying explanatory notes, concordances and indexes. It provides for the needs of students at schools and...
2nd Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 135 p. — (LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History). This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History offers a generous selection of primary texts on the Roman Empire during the period AD 14-117, with accompanying maps and introductory notes. It provides for the needs of students at schools and universities who are...
Cambridge University Press, 2025. — 473 p. This book offers the first full-scale, synthetic account of the Latin technical treatises called artes, arguing that their flourishing in the early Roman Empire represents the emergence and development of a uniquely Roman scientific culture. It introduces the Roman artes on architecture, agriculture, land-surveying, medicine, and the...
СПб.: Коло, 2005. — 192 с. — (Александрийская библиотека. Античность). — ISBN: 5-901841-004-2. Публикуемый труд Михаила Сергеевича Корелина (1855— 1899), историка-медиевиста, профессора Московского университета, основан на прочитанном им курсе публичных лекций. Тема работы делается понятной уже по самому названию. Целью же автора было - донести до слушателя не столько...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025. — 298 p. — (Historia Einzelschrift 276). Für die politische Kultur des kaiserzeitlichen und spätantiken Rom waren Bezugnahmen auf den ersten Princeps Augustus vielfach grundlegend. Schließlich konnten die antiken Zeitgenossen in der Augustusrezeption zentrale politisch-gesellschaftliche Fragen ihrer eigenen Zeit verhandeln. Marco Besl untersucht...
СПб.: Изд-во РГПУ им. А. И. Герцена, 2018. — 464 с., ил. — (Историческая библиотека). - ISBN: 978-5-8064-2576-9 В двухтомном труде Ю. Б. Циркина империя рассматривается и как период древней истории Рима, и как тип государства, политическая система, чьи характеристики до сих пор составляют предмет споров. В первом томе исследована эволюция политического устройства Древнего Рима...
Научное издание. — СПб.: Изд-во РГПУ им. А. И. Герцена, 2018. — 464 с., ил. — (Историческая библиотека). В двухтомном труде Ю. Б. Циркина империя рассматривается и как период древней истории Рима, и как тип государства, политическая система, чьи характеристики до сих пор составляют предмет споров. В первом томе исследована эволюция политического устройства Древнего Рима от...
Head of Zeus Ltd., 2023. — 432 p. The story of Messalina – third wife of the emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world. The image of the empress Messalina as a ruthless, sexually insatiable schemer, derived from the work of Roman historians such as Tacitus and Suetonius, has taken deep root in the Western imagination. The stories...
Peeters, 2023. — xviii + 224 p. — (Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion, 24). This book focuses upon the colony Aelia Capitolina founded by Hadrian on the ruins of Jerusalem, within the general context of his politics of Empire and in particular that of the new developments which had taken place in Judaea since the beginning of his reign. Our knowledge has...
C. H. Beck, 1970. — vii + 284 p. — (Vestigia, 13). "This work is not a social history of the senatorial class from Vespasian to Hadrian, but, as its subtitle reveals, a series of prosopographical essays, of which the final chapters (112 f.) containing yearly lists of the known senatorial governors provide the meat. For the administrative and social historian especially, as the...