European history: the Romans

Die Werke des Tacitus prägen bis heute das Bild, das die Nachwelt über die frühe römische Kaiserzeit besitzt.

Tauchen Sie ein in das Leben eines der faszinierendsten Persönlichkeiten der Geschichte: Gaius Julius Caesar.

Todos los imperios de la historia se han presentado como herederos de los antiguos romanos: el Imperio romano de Oriente, el Sacro Imperio Romano Germánico de Carlomagno, Moscú, «la tercera Roma», los imperios napoleónico y británico, los regímenes fascista y nazi, el imperio americano o el virtual de Mark Zuckerberg, un gran admirador de Augusto.

Tiberius, Rome's second emperor, remains one of the most enigmatic figures of antiquity.

Few surviving works of classical literature have cast the haunting, hilarious, insightful, and eerie spell conjured by the Satyricon of the Neronian courtier and eventual victim Petronius.

Nero's reign (AD 54-68) witnessed some of the most memorable events in Roman history, such as the rebellion of Boudica and the first persecution of the Christians-not to mention Nero's murder of his mother, his tyranny and extravagance, and his suicide, which plunged the empire into civil war.

Titus Livius (59 v.

Immerse yourself in the history of ancient Rome - from its origins as a small settlement on the Palatine Hill to its peak as an empire reigning over 90 million people, and its tumultuous decline.

A multifaceted exploration of the interplay between civic and military life in ancient RomeThe ancient Romans famously distinguished between civic life in Rome and military matters outside the city-a division marked by the pomerium, an abstract religious and legal boundary that was central to the myth of the city's foundation.

Bringing the story of Julius Caesar to life in vivid detail, this fascinating history offers a compelling account of a Roman leader whose name has become synonymous with power, strategy, and ambition.

What did the Romans know about their world?

Die Leichtlebige (Julia).

This exploration of the Judean priesthood's role in agricultural cultivation demonstrates that the institutional reach of Second Temple Judaism (516 BCE-70 CE) went far beyond the confines of its houses of worship, while exposing an unfamiliar aspect of sacred place-making in the ancient Jewish experience.

Ancient Rome masterfully synthesizes the vast period from the second millennium BCE to the sixth century CE, carrying readers through the succession of fateful steps and agonizing crises that marked Roman evolution from an early village settlement to the capital of an extraordinary realm extending from northern Britain to the deserts of Arabia.

A new narrative history of the east Roman field armies based on all the available sources.

"Diese Enzyklopädie des gesamten naturkundlichen Wissen des Altertums wurde von Plinius aus griechischen und römischen Quellen zusammengestellt und nach Sachgruppen geordnet.

Theoderich der Große, König der Ostgoten, steht als eine der faszinierendsten Persönlichkeiten der Spätantike und des frühen Mittelalters im Mittelpunkt einer Epoche des Wandels.

AUFSTIEG UND NIEDERGANG DER RÖMISCHEN WELT (ANRW) ist ein internationales Gemeinschaftswerk historischer Wissenschaften.

This book is a study of the fourth-century sophist Libanius, a major intellectual figure who ran one of the most prestigious schools of rhetoric in the later Roman Empire.

The Barbarians Speak re-creates the story of Europe's indigenous people who were nearly stricken from historical memory even as they adopted and transformed aspects of Roman culture.

A provocative account of Jewish encounters with the public baths of ancient RomePublic bathhouses embodied the Roman way of life, from food and fashion to sculpture and sports.

In 264 BC, a Roman army was poised to cross from southern Italy into Sicily.

IF YOU DON'T KNOW SIMON SCARROW, YOU DON'T KNOW ROME!

Tauchen Sie ein in die dramatische Welt der Seeschlachten, die die Geschichte prägten.

Verspricht ein Römer einem anderen einen Sklaven und stirbt dieser vor der Übereignung, kann der Gläubiger weiterhin wegen des Sklaven klagen, falls der Schuldner im Verzug war oder den Tod verursacht hat.

Die Stadt Rom und ihre Monumente waren in der Spätantike für Kaiser, Senatorenstand und christliche Autoren Bezugspunkt der Selbstdarstellung und Fixpunkt des eigenen Geschichtsbildes.

What modern economics can tell us about ancient RomeThe quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution.

Der vorliegende Band bietet - zum ersten Mal seit über vierzig Jahren - eine kritische Neuedition der literarischen Schriften, die der spätantike römische Kaiser Julian Apostata in der Zeit seiner Alleinherrschaft (361 - 363 n.

The charioteer in his purest form.

The Crisis of Catiline situates students in Rome in 63 BCE during a time of urban and rural tumult, economic instability, sensational trials, and electoral misconduct.

Poetry is often said to resist translation, its integration of form and meaning rendering even the best translations problematic.

"Diese Enzyklopädie des gesamten naturkundlichen Wissen des Altertums wurde von Plinius aus griechischen und römischen Quellen zusammengestellt und nach Sachgruppen geordnet.

Die grundsätzliche Neuinterpretation der Partitiones oratoriae erweist den kleinen Dialog als anspruchsvolles Kompendium des gesamten Systems rhetorischer Lehre und rückt ihn ins Zentrum einer spezifisch ciceronischen Konzeption der Rhetorik.

Im Mittelpunkt dieses knapp gefaßten Studienbuches stehen die strukturellen Ursachen der Krise der Republik und die kontingenten Ereignisse, die zu ihrem Untergang führten.

A selection of the most important sources for the cultural and political context of the early Roman Empire and the New Testament writings, Roman Imperial Texts includes freshly translated public speeches, official inscriptions, annals, essays, poems, and documents of veiled protest from the Empire’s subject peoples —all introduced by Mark Reasoner.

A new account of the famous site and story of the last stand of a group of Jewish rebels who held out against the Roman EmpireTwo thousand years ago, 967 Jewish men, women, and childrenthe last holdouts of the revolt against Rome following the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Second Templereportedly took their own lives rather than surrender to the Roman army.