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This new edition of "Aspects of Roman History 31 BC- AD 117"
provides an easily accessible guide to the history of the early
Roman Empire. Taking the reader through the major political events
of the crucial first 150 years of Roman imperial history, from the
Empire s foundation under Augustus to the height of its power under
Trajan, the book examines the emperors and key events that shaped
Rome s institutions and political form. Blending social and
economic history with political history, Richard Alston s revised
edition leads students through important issues, introducing
sources, exploring techniques by which those sources might be read,
and encouraging students to develop their historical judgement.
The book includes:
- chapters on each of the emperors in this period, exploring the
successes and failures of each reign, and how these shaped the
empire,
- sections on social and economic history, including the core
issues of slavery, social mobility, economic development and
change, gender relations, the rise of new religions, and cultural
change in the Empire,
- an expanded timeframe, providing more information on the
foundation of the imperial system under Augustus and the issues
relating to Augustan Rome,
- a glossary and further reading section, broken down by
chapter.
This expanded and revised edition of "Aspects of Roman History,"
covering an additional 45 years of history from Actium to the death
of Augustus, provides an invaluable introduction to Roman Imperial
history, surveying the way in which the Roman Empire changed the
world and offering critical perspectives on how we might understand
that transformation. It is an important resource for any student of
this crucial and formative period in Roman history.
For those wishing to study the Roman city in Egypt, the
archaeological record is poorer than that of many other provinces.
Yet the large number of surviving texts allows us to reconstruct
the social lives of Egyptians to an extent undreamt of elsewhere.
We are not, therefore, limited to a history of the public faces of
cities, their inscriptions, and the writings of their elites, but
can begin to understand what the transformations of the city meant
for ordinary people, and to uncover the forces that shaped the
everyday lives of city dwellers. After Egypt became part of the
Roman Empire in 30 BC, Classical and then Christian influences both
made their mark on the urban environment. This book examines the
impact of these new cultures at every level of Egyptian society.
The result is a new and fascinating insight into the creation of a
specific urban society in the Roman Empire, as well as a case study
for the model of urban development in antiquity.
For those wishing to study the Roman city in Egypt, the archaeological record is poorer than that of many other provinces. Yet the large number of surviving texts allows us to reconstruct the social lives of Egyptians to an extent undreamt of elsewhere. We are not, therefore, limited to a history of the public faces of cities, their inscriptions, and the writings of their elites, but can begin to understand what the transformations of the city meant for ordinary people, and to uncover the forces that shaped the everyday lives of city dwellers. After Egypt became part of the Roman Empire in 30 BC, Classical and then Christian influences both made their mark on the urban environment. This book examines the impact of these new cultures at every level of Egyptian society. The result is a new and fascinating insight into the creation of a specific urban society in the Roman Empire, as well as a case study for the model of urban development in antiquity. eBook available with sample pages: 0203469267
The province of Egypt provides unique archaeological and documentary evidence for the study of the Roman army. In this fascinating social history Richard Alston examines the economic, cultural, social and legal aspects of a military career, illuminating the life and role of the individual soldier in the army. Soldier and Society in Roman Eygpt provides a complete reassessment of the impact of the Roman army on local societies, and convincingly challenges the orthodox picture. The soldiers are seen not as an isolated elite living in fear of the local populations, but as relatively well-integrated into local communities. The unsuspected scale of the army's involvement in these communities offers a new insight into both Roman rule in Egypt and Roman imperialism more generally.
The province of Egypt provides unique archaeological and documentary evidence for the study of the Roman army. In this fascinating social history Richard Alston examines the economic, cultural, social and legal aspects of a military career, illuminating the life and role of the individual soldier in the army. Soldier and Society in Roman Eygpt provides a complete reassessment of the impact of the Roman army on local societies, and convincingly challenges the orthodox picture. The soldiers are seen not as an isolated elite living in fear of the local populations, but as relatively well integrated into local communities. The unsuspected scale of the army's involvement in these communities offers a new insight into both Roman rule in Egypt and Roman imperialism more generally. eBook available with sample pages: 0203066731
This new edition of "Aspects of Roman History 31 BC- AD 117"
provides an easily accessible guide to the history of the early
Roman Empire. Taking the reader through the major political events
of the crucial first 150 years of Roman imperial history, from the
Empire s foundation under Augustus to the height of its power under
Trajan, the book examines the emperors and key events that shaped
Rome s institutions and political form. Blending social and
economic history with political history, Richard Alston s revised
edition leads students through important issues, introducing
sources, exploring techniques by which those sources might be read,
and encouraging students to develop their historical judgement.
The book includes:
- chapters on each of the emperors in this period, exploring the
successes and failures of each reign, and how these shaped the
empire,
- sections on social and economic history, including the core
issues of slavery, social mobility, economic development and
change, gender relations, the rise of new religions, and cultural
change in the Empire,
- an expanded timeframe, providing more information on the
foundation of the imperial system under Augustus and the issues
relating to Augustan Rome,
- a glossary and further reading section, broken down by
chapter.
This expanded and revised edition of "Aspects of Roman History,"
covering an additional 45 years of history from Actium to the death
of Augustus, provides an invaluable introduction to Roman Imperial
history, surveying the way in which the Roman Empire changed the
world and offering critical perspectives on how we might understand
that transformation. It is an important resource for any student of
this crucial and formative period in Roman history.
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Reading Ancient Slavery (Paperback)
Edith Hall, Laura Proffitt, Richard Alston; Volume editing by Laura Proffitt, Richard Alston, …
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Evidence relating to the 'real world' of antiquity - inscriptions,
historiography and legal speeches - has dominated studies of
ancient Greek and Roman slavery, although providing few direct
accounts by slaves of their subjective experiences. Yet the
imaginative fictions produced by the ancient psyche in its
literature and art provide many representations and discussions of
what it felt like to be a slave. This volume provides a sustained
discussion of the theory and practice of handling ancient poetry
and images in order to enhance our understanding of the way that
slavery was experienced by both slaves and their owners in the
ancient world. Twelve essays by an international team of
specialists develop a variety of theoretical positions, reading
practices and interpretive strategies for recovering the
psychological, emotional and social impact of ancient slavery from
Homer, Aristotle, Greek drama, visual images, Roman poetry and
imperial Roman dream interpretation.
Novelized, televised, and endlessly scrutinized by scholars, the
fall of the Roman Republic marks one of history's great turning
points. Historians have studied the descent of the Republic into
civil war as a great political tragedy, a warning from the past
about the unsustainability of empires; political scientists have
labeled it a parable about militarism, populism, moral decay, or
the inevitable corruption of political systems. Yet the familiar
story of the Roman Republic's downfall continues to be the story of
its elites. What if we started thinking about Roman politics not
from the perspectives of Caesar and Cicero, but from the point of
view of the soldier, the peasant, or the pauper? In an original
account of what he calls Rome's revolution, Richard Alston
reinscribes these humble protagonists into their tumultuous era.
They, like the ruthless aristocrats they swore allegiance to, were
political agents, negotiating their positions in the context of a
"failed state." Rome's Revolution blends riveting historical
narrative with socio-economic analysis, restoring a rich context to
the cataclysmic violence of the period. In addition to chronicling
the drama of aristocratic rivalries, the book digs beneath the high
politics of Cicero, Caesar, Antony and Octavian to examine the
problems of making a living in first-century BC Italy. Portraying
the revolution as the crisis of a violent society-both among the
citizenry and among a ruling class whose legitimacy was
dwindling-Rome's Revolution provides new insight into the
motivations that drove men to march on their capital city and
slaughter their compatriots.
A pathbreaking study of the role played by ancient Greek and Roman
sources and voices in the struggle to abolish transatlantic slavery
and in representations of that struggle in the twentieth century.
Thirteen essays by an interdisciplinary team of specialists from
three continents, led by the Centre for the Reception of Greece and
Rome at Royal Holloway University of London, ask how both critics
and defenders of slavery in media ranging from parliamentary
speeches to poetry, fiction, drama, and cinema have summoned the
ghosts of the ancient Spartans, Homer, Aristotle, Aeschylus, Pliny,
Spartacus, and Prometheus to support their arguments.
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