The creation of Imperial gods: Not only imposition versus spontaneity
The emperor was adored directly and simultaneously as primary holder of power and chief patron. In relation to the emperor as god, there are two pertinent instances where the ruler brands himself with characteristics of other gods.
Clodius Pulcher: Caesar’s Willing Puppet The Bona Dea Affair and Its Effect on Cicero and the Fall of the Republic
ublius Clodous Pulcher, the patrician at the center of this scandal, became a means to control Caesar’s interests and enemies in the senate during his Gallic campaign.
Popular Imagination vs Historical Reality: What does HBO’s Rome Reveal about the Practice of History?
This paper is as much about history and popular imagination as it is about historical films. It argues that it is not historical accuracy or film as historical evidence that matters, but the historical questions and debates that film raises for its audience and the historical profession regarding the past it presents and its implication on history.
The Limits of Brilliance: The Role of Supply Problems in Hannibal’s Failed Italian Campaign
Hannibal’s undoing was the result of the deliberate Roman policy of harassment and deprivation, his inability to win a critical mass of political support from the Italian communities, and his failure to find a long-term solution to his considerable supply needs.
The Accidental Suicide of the Roman Empire
Ever since then the end of antiquity has always been seen as about the opposition between a Roman Mediterranean and a Germanic Barbarian north.
The City in Decline: Rome in Late Antiquity
The City in Decline: Rome in Late Antiquity By Kevin Twine Middle States Geographer, Vol.25 (1992) Abstract: This paper addresses the question of what happens…
Rethinking the Plague of Cyprian: Pandemics and Passages to Late Antiquity
Named after the bishop of Carthage whose writings supply some of the most vivid testimony about the event, the Plague of Cyprian is attested in circum-Mediterranean populations from AD 249 until 270.
Reactionary Paganism: Renewal and Invention of Traditions in Late Fourth Century Rome
This paper will attempt to explore this new pagan identity that emerged only a few years before the (public) extinction of polytheism and will attempt to trace the potentials of this last Pagan Revolution.
Travertine Reveals Ancient Roman Aqueduct Supply
For hundreds of years, the Anio Novus aqueduct carried water 87 km (54 miles) from the Aniene River of the Apennine Mountains down into Rome. Built between AD 38 and 52, scholars continue to struggle to determine how much water the Anio Novus supplied to the Eternal City—until now.
The Long Defeat: The Fall of the Roman Empire in East and West
The Roman Empire remains one of the world’s longest lived polities. Its collapse has therefore endured as a great historical puzzle. Was it barbarians or internal decay? Or was Christianity to blame?