This ground-breaking study is the first to employ modern international relations theory to place Roman militarism and expansion of power within the broader Mediterranean context of interstate anarchy. Arthur M. Eckstein challenges claims that Rome was an exceptionally warlike and aggressive state - not merely in modern but in ancient terms - by arguing that intense militarism and aggressiveness were common among all Mediterranean polities from ca 750 B.C. onwards. In his wide-ranging and masterf...
In the West, monastic ideals and scholastic pursuits are complementary; monks are popularly imagined copying classics, preserving learning through the Middle Ages, and establishing the first universities. But this dual identity is not without its contradictions. While monasticism emphasizes the virtues of poverty, chastity, and humility, the scholar, by contrast, requires expensive infrastructure--a library, a workplace, and the means of disseminating his work. In The Monk and the Book, Megan Ha...
Cicero (Founders of Modern Political and Social Thought)
by Malcolm Schofield
This book offers an innovative analytic account of Cicero's treatment of key political ideas: liberty and equality, government, law, cosmopolitanism and imperialism, republican virtues, and ethical decision-making in politics. Cicero (106-43 BC) is well known as a major player in the turbulent politics of the last three decades of the Roman Republic. But he was a political thinker, too, influential for many centuries in the Western intellectual and cultural tradition. His theoretical writings st...
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by Daniel Krencker and Willy Zschietzschmann
Nostoi Tradizioni Eroiche E Modelli Mitici Nel Meridione d'Italia (Studia Archaeologica, #169)
by Guglielmo Genovese
Untersuchungen Zur Geschichte Des Kaisers Septimius Severus (Classic Reprint)
by Johannes Hasebroek
Beautes de l'Histoire Grecque, Ou Tableau Des Evenemens Qui Ont Immortalise Les Grecs
by Rene-Jean Durdent
A Guide to Early Celtic Remains in Britain (Guides S.)
by Peter Berresford Ellis
The Great Eclipse of 1999, the celestial event of the 20th century, is examined from every perspective in this comprehensive guide, which includes examples of how the lives of individuals such as Jesus Christ, Julius Caesar and Prince Charles and Princess Diana were affected by solar eclipses.
Poetic Autonomy in Ancient Rome
by Assistant Professor of Classics Luke Roman
The Beauties of Gibbon, Consisting of Selections from His Works
by Edward Gibbon
Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae, Volume 22
by Theophylactus Simocatta
Greek and Latin Inscriptions in the Manisa Museum (Erganzungsbande Tam, #19)
by Hasan Malay
Roman Remains of Northern and Eastern France, The: A Guidebook
by James Bromwich
Latin Notebook - Docendo Disco, Scribendo Cogito
by Green Hat Publishing