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Free Download World and Hour in Roman Minds: Exploratory Essays by Richard J. A. Talbert
English | February 28, 2023 | ISBN: 0197606342 | 328 pages | MOBI | 36 Mb
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 scattered publications. Now reinforced by an Introduction and textually and visually updated, these essays document the progress of pioneering efforts to glimpse the worldviews of Romans up and down the social scale-even Julius Caesar and Claudius-and to reassess the communicative role of Roman mapping along with its strengths and limitations.

Free Download Domenico Lovascio, "Roman Women in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries "
English | ISBN: 1501518569 | 2020 | 245 pages | PDF | 1250 KB
Roman Women in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries explores the crucial role of Roman female characters in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. While much has been written on male characters in the Roman plays as well as on non-Roman women in early modern English drama, very little attention has been paid to the issues of what makes Roman women ‘Roman’ and what their role in those plays is beyond their supposed function as supporting characters for the male protagonists. Through the exploration of a broad array of works produced by such diverse playwrights as Samuel Brandon, William Shakespeare, Matthew Gwynne, Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Thomas May, and Nathaniel Richards under three such different monarchs as Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I, Roman Women in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

Free Download Roman Army Units in the Western Provinces (3): 4th-5th Centuries AD
by Raffaele D’Amato and Raffaele Ruggeri
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1472862686 | 51 Pages | True PDF | 12.6 MB

Free Download From Pen to Pixel: Studies of the Roman Forum and the Digital Future of World Heritage
by Patrizia Fortini, Krupali Krusche
English | 2021 | ISBN: 8891319457 | 359 Pages | PDF | 19.7 MB

Free Download Beyond the Empire: A Guide to the Roman Remains in Scotland by Andrew Tibbs
English | May 27, 2019 | ISBN: 0719829275 | True EPUB | 208 pages | 57.8 MB
Though Scotland was never successfully conquered by the Roman Empire, the lands north of Hadrian’s Wall nonetheless include many Roman sites that bear witness to Rome’s attempts to impose her will over the whole of Britain. Beyond the Empire offers a complete listing of all 330 known Roman sites in Scotland, including location maps, details of notable archaeological finds, what is visible on the ground, and how to visit them.

Free Download K. Sara Myers, "Ancient Roman Literary Gardens: Gender, Genre, and Geopoetics"
English | ISBN: 0197773206 | 2024 | 312 pages | PDF | 144 MB
Gardens are not central in Latin literature, but usually somewhere off to the side, as was often the real garden. They appear, however, in some form in nearly all literary genres of Latin literature-history, satire, epigrams, epics, letters, lyric poetry, elegies, and novels-and often edge their way into larger socio-economic and political discussions about Roman identity, gender, wealth, and land use. Through an analysis of ancient garden studies and close readings of major Latin texts from the first centuries BCE and CE, K. Sara Myers examines the function and representation of garden descriptions in the work of a broad range of Roman authors, such as Cicero, Catullus, Vergil, Varro, Horace, Ovid, Petronius, Columella, Statius, and Pliny the Elder and Younger.

Free Download The Eagle and the Bear: A New History of Roman Scotland by
English | ISBN: 1780278144 | 256 pages | PDF | 60 Mb
For over three centuries, the inhabitants of North Britain faced the might of Rome, resulting in some of the most extraordinary archaeology of the ancient world.

Free Download J. P. Sullivan, "Critical Essays on Roman Literature"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1138686883 | PDF | pages: 431 | 41.5 mb
First published in 1962, this book is the first of two volumes which bridge the gap between the study of classics and the study of literature and attempt to reconcile the two disciplines. Focusing on elegy and lyric, this collection of essays offers a critical examination of Latin literature and aims to stimulate critical discussion of a selection of Latin poets.

Free Download John Hazel, "Who’s Who in the Roman World "
English | ISBN: 0415291623 | 2002 | 384 pages | EPUB | 835 KB
Who’s Who in the Roman World is a wide-ranging biographical survey of one of the greatest civilizations in history. Covering a period from the 5th century BC to AD 364, this is an authoritative and hugely enjoyable guide to an era which continues to fascinate today. The figures included come from all walks of Roman life and include some of history’s most famous – not to mention infamous – figures as well as hitherto little-known, but no less fascinating, characters. These include: * the notorious emperors – Caligula; Nero; Elagabalus; Commodus * the great poets, philosophers and historians – Virgil; Tacitus; Seneca; Ovid * the brilliant politicians and soldiers – Hannibal; Scipio; Caesar; Mark Antony; Constantine * noteworthy citizens – Acte, mistress of Nero; Catiline, the revolutionary; Spartacus, champion of the slaves; Gaius Verres, the corrupt governor of Sicily. The inclusion of cross-referencing, a glossary of terms, select bibliographies, maps, genealogies and an author’s preface complete what is at once a superb reference resource and an enormously entertaining read.

Free Download Ann-Katrin Gill, "Transforming the Dead in Graeco-Roman Egypt: The Spells of P. Louvre N. 3122 and P. Berlin P. 3162 "
English | ISBN: 311107983X | 2023 | 186 pages | PDF | 100 MB
The belief that dead people could assume non-human forms is attested in Egyptian texts of all periods, from the Old Kingdom down to Graeco-Roman times. It was thought that assuming such forms enhanced their freedom of movement and access to nourishment in the afterlife, as well as allowing them to join the entourages of different deities and participate in their worship. Spells referring to or enabling the deceased’s transformations occur in the Pyramid Texts, the Coffin Texts, and the Book of the Dead. But it is not until the Graeco-Roman Period that we find entire compositions devoted to this theme. Two of the most important are P. Louvre N. 3122 and P. Berlin P. 3162, both written in hieratic and dating to the 1st century AD. Both texts have been known to Egyptologists for more than a century, but neither is currently available in an up-to-date comprehensive edition. This book provides such an edition, including high-resolution images of the manuscripts, hieroglyphic transcriptions, translations, descriptions of their material aspects, studies of their owners, their titles, and their families, reconstructions of their context of usage, analyses of their orthography and grammar, and detailed commentaries on their contents.