A Healing Touch for Empire: Vespasian's Wonders in Domitianic Rome
The development of the story of Vespasian
From periphery to centre: pagan continuity and revival in Britain and Rome during the late fourth century AD
The term ‘cult acts’ has also been posited as a mare apt description of Roman religious practice, and this certainly does account for the panoply of practices of a religious nature that existed in the Roman world; differences in culture, class, geography and ancestry led individuals to seek religious affiliatians unique to themselves
Ammianus and some Tribuni Scholarum Palatinarum c. A.D. 353-364
It is my intention here to draw together such information as Ammianus provides about the scholae in order to demonstrate how, in a number of cases in particular, it is possible to reconstruct an almost complete list of their commanders for the period c. 353-364.
Roman Imperialism Checked at Teutoburger Wald in AD 9
Augustus
Monsters in the Roman Sky: Heaven and Earth in Manilius' Astronomica
The five-book astrological poem of Manilius, composed during the final years of Augustus
Constantius and the Visigothic Settlement in Gaul
More significant, perhaps, is the fact that he was elevated to the position of Augustus by Honorius after he had temporarily pacified the region of Gaul. A major part o f Constantius’s program ofpacificaiion had been moving the powerful Visigoths into the region.
Speculations of the Death of Roman Theatre
These mimes were centered around themes of murder and adultery: the amount of indecency was incredible. In a warped sense of Realism, emperors could command a real sex act to take place on stage.
Some Observations on Nero and the City of Rome
Most Neronian interventions concerning the layout of the city have been made after the Great Fire of A.D. 64. Two of the few previous important interventions were the new arrangement of the via Recta and the construction of the pons Neronianus, giving access to the area with the new baths Nero built near those of Marcus Agrippa.
Power and status. Administration, appointment policies, and social hierarchies in the Roman Empire (193-284 AD)
In this study, I explore administration, appointment policies and social hierarchies in the period between AD 193 to 284, in order to define changing status and power relations between the highest ranking representatives of imperial power at the central level.
The Traders in Rome's Eastern Commerce
Despite opposition by certain members of society, the Eastern trade seems to have continued to grow for at least the first two centuries of Roman rule.