Tag: Roman

Free Download On Roman Time: The Codex-Calendar of 354 and the Rhythms of Urban Life in Late Antiquity by Michele Renee Salzman
English | 1991 | ISBN: 0520065662 | 335 Pages | PDF | 28.5 MB
Because they list all the public holidays and pagan festivals of the age, calendars provide unique insights into the culture and everyday life of ancient Rome.

Free Download Empire and Memory: The Representation of the Roman Republic in Imperial Culture by Alain M. Gowing
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0521836220 | 194 Pages | PDF | 1.3 MB
Despite the fact that the Roman Republic came to an undeniable end in 31 BC with the accession of the emperor Augustus, the memory of the Republic persisted.

Free Download Asceticism in the Graeco-Roman World by Richard Finn
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0521681545 | 196 Pages | PDF | 2.2 MB
Asceticism deploys abstention, self-control, and self-denial, to order oneself or a community in relation to the divine.

Free Download Gregg Allison, "40 Questions About Roman Catholicism"
English | ISBN: 082544716X | 2021 | 336 pages | EPUB | 1138 KB
Straightforward answers about Roman Catholicism for a Protestant audience

Free Download The Colonate in the Roman Empire
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009172603 | 359 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
The fourth and fifth centuries AD gave rise to a particular phenomenon in the Roman Empire: the colonate. The colonate involved the fiscal regulation of a relationship of surety between landowners and farmers in the later Roman Empire and played a major role in agrarian and social relations, with implications for these farmers’ freedom of movement and transmission of status. This study provides a clear and comprehensive reassessment of the legal aspects of the phenomenon, embedding them as far as possible in their social and economic contexts. As well as taking the innovative approach of working retrogradely, or backwards through time, the volume provides a thorough assessment of two critical sources, the Theodosian and Justinian Codes, and will therefore be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Roman law and the agricultural and social history of late antiquity.

Free Download Aspar and the Struggle for the Eastern Roman Empire, AD 421-71
by Ronald A. Bleeker
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1350279269 | 248 Pages | True ePUB | 2.3 MB

Free Download Civil War in the Roman Republic, 106 to 44BCE: A Time of Great Civil, Military and Political Strife that Mirrors Our Own (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798868617201 | 2023 | 4 hours and 59 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 271 MB
Author: Cicero, Cato The Younger, Catiline, Mark Antony, Caius Memmius, Julius Caesar, Caius Marius
Narrator: Charles Featherstone
The late republic (from about 133BCE) was characterized by civil discontent, with three Servile Wars, two attempted coups, a Social War between Rome and Italian allies, and endless conflict. We begin in 110-106BCE with two speeches railing against the fixed social order and corruption of the highborn, as well as the scorn poured on those of lower birth. We then jump to the Cataline Conspiracy in 63 BCE, an attempt to overthrow the Senate that was only defeated at great cost, and continued to be a symbol of Rome’s troubles. Here we see Cataline exhorting his troops, Cato arguing for harsh punishment, C icero calling Cataline every contemptible name under the sun, and the only known speech of Julius Caesar, in which he argues for a sensible and jurisprudential response to this great crime.

Free Download Senses, Cognition, and Ritual Experience in the Roman World
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009355546 | 241 Pages | PDF | 5 MB
How do the senses shape the way we perceive, understand, and remember ritual experiences? This book applies cognitive and sensory approaches to Roman rituals, reconnecting readers with religious experiences as members of an embodied audience. These approaches allow us to move beyond the literate elites to examine broader audiences of diverse individuals, who experienced rituals as participants and/or performers. Case studies of ritual experiences from a variety of places, spaces, and contexts across the Roman world, including polytheistic and Christian rituals, state rituals, private rituals, performances, and processions, demonstrate the dynamic and broad-scale application that cognitive approaches offer for ancient religion, paving the way for future interdisciplinary engagement. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Free Download Caitlín Eilís Barrett, "Households in Context: Dwelling in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt"
English | ISBN: 1501771302 | 2024 | 368 pages | EPUB | 11 MB
Households in Context shifts the focus from monumental temples, tombs, and elite material and visual culture to households and domestic life to provide a crucial new perspective on everyday dwelling practices and the interactions of families and individuals with larger social and cultural structures. A focus on households reveals the power of the everyday: the critical role of quotidian experiences, objects, and images in creating the worlds of the people who live with them.

Free Download The Roman Predicament: How the Rules of International Order Create the Politics of Empire by Harold James
English | April 2, 2006 | ISBN: 0691122210, 0691136351 | True EPUB | 176 pages | 1 MB
Modern America owes the Roman Empire for more than gladiator movies and the architecture of the nation’s Capitol. It can also thank the ancient republic for some helpful lessons in globalization. So argues economic historian Harold James in this masterful work of intellectual history.