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Free Download Roman History Compact & Easy to Understand: Experience Ancient Rome From Its Birth to Its Fall – Incl. Roman Empire Background Knowledge (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLLZHVWB | 2023 | 1 hour and 15 minutes | M4B@320 kbps | 174 MB
Author: Roman Grapengeter
Narrator: Casey Wayman
Starting from the two iconic dates of 753 BC (according to legend, the founding of Rome) and 476 AD (the deposition of the last Western Roman emperor Romulus Augustulus), the history of the Roman Empire spans more than 1200 years. This was not only a long period of time, but also an eventful one – after all, the inhabitants of the city on the Tiber River conquered an empire that, at its greatest expansion in 116 AD, encompassed most of Europe as well as parts of North Africa and Asia Minor. This book will give you an entertaining introduction to the history of the Roman Empire. You will find here only the information you need to understand why the 1200-year development took place as the sources tell us. And because incontrovertible facts are often sparser than one would expect or wish, you will also learn what we don’t know (anymore) today and why that is so.

Free Download Roman History Compact & Easy to Understand: Experience Ancient Rome From Its Birth to Its Fall – Incl. Roman Empire Background Knowledge (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLLZHVWB | 2023 | 1 hour and 15 minutes | M4B@320 kbps | 174 MB
Author: Roman Grapengeter
Narrator: Casey Wayman
Starting from the two iconic dates of 753 BC (according to legend, the founding of Rome) and 476 AD (the deposition of the last Western Roman emperor Romulus Augustulus), the history of the Roman Empire spans more than 1200 years. This was not only a long period of time, but also an eventful one – after all, the inhabitants of the city on the Tiber River conquered an empire that, at its greatest expansion in 116 AD, encompassed most of Europe as well as parts of North Africa and Asia Minor. This book will give you an entertaining introduction to the history of the Roman Empire. You will find here only the information you need to understand why the 1200-year development took place as the sources tell us. And because incontrovertible facts are often sparser than one would expect or wish, you will also learn what we don’t know (anymore) today and why that is so.

Free Download Writing, Teachers, and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt By Raffaella Cribiore
1996 | 316 Pages | ISBN: 0788502778 | PDF | 21 MB
Papyri problems and exercises on papyri and ostraca, work books and text books provide some of the richest evidence for the processes of education in the Roman world. This study examines how the skill of writing was taught, and how it was learned.

Free Download Matthew Gibbs, "Themes in Roman Society and Culture: An Introduction to Ancient Rome"
English | ISBN: 0195445198 | 2013 | 480 pages | PDF | 244 MB
Themes in Roman Society and Culture is a core contributed volume that provides a thematic introduction to fundamental aspects of Roman society-its composition, institutions, structures, and cultural products-with major focus on the period 200 BCE to 200 CE. This engaging introduction challenges students to consider Roman society as a complex web of social relationships, economic dynamics, legal structures, and religious beliefs, informed by the physical environment in which it developed rather than a series of chronological events. Each chapter is written by an active Canadian researcher and teacher in the field, which gives students a sense of the relevant evidence and an assessment of the current state of scholarship, preparing them to pursue more nuanced, thoughtful, and complex research into Roman life or history.

Free Download Christopher H. Hallett, "The Roman Nude: Heroic Portrait Statuary 200 BC – AD 300 "
English | ISBN: 0199240493 | 2005 | 416 pages | PDF | 127 MB

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Free Download Cannabis in the Ancient Greek and Roman World
by Alan Sumler
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1498560350 | 142 Pages | True PDF/EPUB | 0.88 MB

Free Download Voluntary Associations in the Graeco-Roman World By John S. Kloppenborg; Stephen G. Wilson
1996 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 0415135931 | PDF | 10 MB
Based upon a series of detailed case studies of associations such as early synagogues and churches, philosophical schools and pagan mystery cults, this collection addresses the question of what can legitimately be termed a ‘voluntary association’.Employing modern sociological concepts, the essays show how the various associations were constituted, the extent of their membership, why people joined them and what they contributed to the social fabric of urban life. For many, those groups were the most significant feature of social life beyond family and work. All of them provided an outlet of religious as well as social commitments.Also included are studies of the way in which early Jewish and Christian groups adopted and adapted the models of private association available to them and how this affected their social status and role. Finally, the situation of women is discussed, as some of the voluntary associations offered them a more significant recognition than they received in society at large.

Free Download Ruling Roman Britain: Kings, Queens, Governors and Emperors from Julius Caesar to Agricola By David Braund
1996 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 0415008042 | PDF | 9 MB
In this book, David Braund offers a significantly different perspective upon the history of Roman Britain. He concentrates upon the literary evidence, which has been studied to a lesser extent than archaeology in recent years. Close attention to the Greek and Roman sources enables the construction of a new approach to Roman Britain, its history and its archaeology. For the first time, monarchy is identified as a key issue in the history of Roman Britain.

Free Download Siobhán McElduff, "Roman Theories of Translation: Surpassing the Source"
English | 2013 | pages: 277 | ISBN: 0415816769, 1138243108 | PDF | 1,9 mb
For all that Cicero is often seen as the father of translation theory, his and other Roman comments on translation are often divorced from the complicated environments that produced them. The first book-length study in English of its kind, Roman Theories of Translation: Surpassing the Source explores translation as it occurred in Rome and presents a complete, culturally integrated discourse on its theories from 240 BCE to the 2nd Century CE. Author Siobhán McElduff analyzes Roman methods of translation, connects specific events and controversies in the Roman Empire to larger cultural discussions about translation, and delves into the histories of various Roman translators, examining how their circumstances influenced their experience of translation.

Free Download John W. Hayes, Kathleen Warner Slane, "Late Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman Pottery (Isthmia)"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0876619162 | PDF | pages: 441 | 29.8 mb
This volume presents the Late Classical through Roman pottery from the University of Chicago excavations at Isthmia (1952-1989). In a series of three chapters-on the Late Classical and Hellenistic pottery, the Roman pottery, and the pottery from the Palaimonion-a general discussion is followed by a catalog presenting datable contexts and then by a catalogue of other noteworthy pottery. Appendixes discuss the stratigraphy of the Palaimonion and observations on new and previously published lamps. Amphora stamps are the focus of a further appendix, followed by a catalogue of the Slavic and Byzantine pottery found in the sanctuary area. Although the pottery is sometimes fragmentary, the range of materials over this thousand-year period is typical of Corinthian sites. The finds presented here provide critical information about the history of the Panhellenic sanctuary of Poseidon and the ritual activities that took place there.