As The Romans Did

Author : Jo-Ann Shelton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195089738
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book As the Romans Did written by Jo-Ann Shelton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised to include new selections and updated bibliographical material, the second edition of this popular sourcebook offers a rich, revealing look at everyday Roman life. It provides clear, lively translations of a fascinating array of documents drawn from Latin and Greek source material--from personal letters, farming manuals, medical texts, and recipes to poetry, graffiti, and tombstone inscriptions. Each selection has been translated into readable, contemporary English. This edition includes more than 50 additional selections that introduce new topics and expand coverage of existing topics. In addition, the commentary on all the selections has been revised to reflect the recent scholarship of social and cultural historians. Extensive annotations, abundant biographical notes, maps, appendices, cross-references to related topics, and a newly-updated bibliography provide readers with the historical and cultural background material necessary to appreciate the selections. Arranged thematically into chapters on family life, housing, education, entertainment, religion, and other important topics, the translations reveal the ambitions and aspirations not only of the upper class, but of the average Roman citizen as well. They tell of the success and failure of Rome's grandiose imperialist policies and also of the pleasures and hardships of everyday life. Wide-ranging and lively, the second edition of As the Romans Did offers the most lucid account available of Roman life in all its diversity. Ideal for courses in Ancient Roman History, Social History of Rome, Roman Civilization, and Classics, it will also appeal to readers interested in ancient history.

Author : Jo-Ann Shelton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book As the Romans Did written by Jo-Ann Shelton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of translations from Latin and Greek source materials, As the Romans Did offers a highly revealing look at everyday Roman life, providing clear, lively translations of a fascinating array of documents--from personal letters, farming manuals, medical texts, and recipes, to poetry, graffiti, and tombstone inscriptions. Each selection is newly translated into readable, contemporary English and fully annotated to give necessary historical and cultural background. In addition, the book includes abundant biographical notes, maps, appendices, and cross-references to related topics, as well as an extensive bibliography, providing students with substantial background material to broaden their understanding of the selections. Arranged thematically into chapters on family life, housing, education, entertainment, religion, and other important topics, the translations reveal the ambitions and aspirations not only of the upper class, but of the average Roman citizen as well; they tell not only of the success and failure of Rome's grandiose imperialist policies, but also of the pleasures and the hardships of everyday life.

Author : Daryn Lehoux
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226471152
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Did the Romans Know? written by Daryn Lehoux and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did the Romans know about their world? Quite a lot, as Daryn Lehoux makes clear in this fascinating and much-needed contribution to the history and philosophy of ancient science. Lehoux contends that even though many of the Romans’ views about the natural world have no place in modern science—the umbrella-footed monsters and dog-headed people that roamed the earth and the stars that foretold human destinies—their claims turn out not to be so radically different from our own. Lehoux draws upon a wide range of sources from what is unquestionably the most prolific period of ancient science, from the first century BC to the second century AD. He begins with Cicero’s theologico-philosophical trilogy On the Nature of the Gods, On Divination, and On Fate, illustrating how Cicero’s engagement with nature is closely related to his concerns in politics, religion, and law. Lehoux then guides readers through highly technical works by Galen and Ptolemy, as well as the more philosophically oriented physics and cosmologies of Lucretius, Plutarch, and Seneca, all the while exploring the complex interrelationships between the objects of scientific inquiry and the norms, processes, and structures of that inquiry. This includes not only the tools and methods the Romans used to investigate nature, but also the Romans’ cultural, intellectual, political, and religious perspectives. Lehoux concludes by sketching a methodology that uses the historical material he has carefully explained to directly engage the philosophical questions of incommensurability, realism, and relativism. By situating Roman arguments about the natural world in their larger philosophical, political, and rhetorical contexts, What Did the Romans Know? demonstrates that the Romans had sophisticated and novel approaches to nature, approaches that were empirically rigorous, philosophically rich, and epistemologically complex.

Author : Dorothy Mills
Publisher : Sophia Perennis
ISBN 13 : 9781597313544
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Ancient Romans written by Dorothy Mills and published by Sophia Perennis. This book was released on 2007 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927.

Author : Alison Hawes
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408112868
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What the Romans Did for Us written by Alison Hawes and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From takeaways to motorways, the Romans brought with them a variety of ideas and inventions that changed the way we live.

Author : Philip Wilkinson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan Adult
ISBN 13 : 9780752261720
Total Pages : 160 pages
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Download or read book What the Romans Did for Us written by Philip Wilkinson and published by Pan Macmillan Adult. This book was released on 2001 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book accompany's the series What The Romas Did For Us - a 6 x 30 BBC2 documentary fronted by Adam Hart-Davis - with an in-depth illustrated history of the Roman occupation, how each technological invention was utilized by the Romans and how they compare to our own technology today.

Author : Robert Louis Wilken
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300098396
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Christians as the Romans Saw Them written by Robert Louis Wilken and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an engrossing portrayal of the early years of the Christian movement from the perspective of the Romans.

Author : Mary Taliaferro Boatwright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199730575
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Romans : from village to empire written by Mary Taliaferro Boatwright and published by . This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Romans unfolds Rome's remarkable evolution from village to monarchy and then republic and finally to one-man rule by an emperor whose power at its peak stretched from Scotland to Iraq and the Nile Valley. Firmly grounded in ancient literary and material sources, the book captures and analyzes the outstanding political and military landmarks from the Punic Wars, to Caesar's conquest of Gaul and his crossing of the Rubicon, to the victory of Octavian over Mark Antony, to Constantine's adoption of Christianity. Here too are some of the most fascinating individuals ever to walk across the world stage, including Hannibal, Mithridates, Pompey, Cicero, Cleopatra, Augustus, Livia, Nero, Marcus Aurelius, and Shapur. The authors bring to life many aspects of Rome's cultural and social history, from the role of women, to literature, entertainments, town-planning, portraiture, and religion. The book incorporates more than 30 maps."--Jacket.

Author : Tim Parkin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134091249
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Social History written by Tim Parkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-10-17 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Sourcebook contains a comprehensive collection of sources on the topic of the social history of the Roman world during the late Republic and the first two centuries AD. Designed to form the basis for courses in Roman social history, this excellent resource covers original translations from sources such as inscriptions, papyri, and legal texts. Topics include: social inequality and class games, gladiators and attitudes to violence the role of slaves in Roman society economy and taxation the Roman legal system the Roman family and gender roles. Including extensive explanatory notes, maps and bibliographies, this Sourcebook is the ideal resource for all students and teachers embarking on a course in Roman social history.

Author : Jo-Ann Shelton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780190072131
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book As the Romans Did written by Jo-Ann Shelton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2022-08 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Romans Did offers a rich, revealing look at everyday Roman life. It provides clear, lively translations of a fascinating array of documents drawn from Latin and Greek source material--from personal letters, farming manuals, medical texts, and recipes to poetry, graffiti, and tombstone inscriptions. Each selection has been translated into readable, contemporary English. Extensive annotations, abundant biographical notes, maps, appendices, cross-references to related topics, and a newly updated bibliography provide readers with the historical and cultural background material necessary to appreciate the selections. Arranged thematically into chapters on family life, housing, education, entertainment, religion, and other important topics, the translations reveal the ambitions and aspirations not only of the upper class, but of the average Roman citizen as well. They tell of the success and failure of Rome's grandiose imperialist policies and also of the pleasures and hardships of everyday life. Wide-ranging and lively, the third edition of As the Romans Did offers the most lucid account available of Roman life in all its diversity.