Greek images of monarchy and their influence on Rome from Alexander to Augustus
This inter-disciplinary thesis traces the influence of Greek images of monarchy on Rome, between 323 B.C. and A.D. 14.
Roman sumptuary legislation of the Republican Era C. 200-100 B.C.
Between the end of the Second Punic War and the beginning of the Social War the Roman Senate proposed and the voters passed a number of laws and regulations concemed with private life and public display, among them at least four restricting the cost of provisioning and the number of guests allowed at private banquets.
Burial customs and the pollution of death in ancient Rome: procedures and paradoxes
In this study the traditions relating to the correct preparation of the body and the subsequent funerary procedures leading up to inhumation or incineration are reviewed and the influence of social status is considered.
The healing hand: the role of women in Graeco-Roman medicine
This paper provides a detailed examination of the role played by women in ancient medicine. The period under discussion extends from the height of Greek civilisation (the 5th century BC) to the Roman Empire of the 4th century AD.
After the daggers : politics and persuasion after the assassination of Caesar
In my thesis, I contribute to improving our new way of understanding late Roman republican politics by taking a broader approach that incorporates other types of political interactions in which oratory played a significant role.
Augustus and the Governors' Wives
Until the last century of the Roman Republic it was an established principle that officials assigned provinces outside of Italy would not be accompanied there by their wives, whose duty was to remain behind to look after their husbands’ interests.
Fides in Julius Caesar's Bellum Civile: A Study in Roman Political Ideology at the Close of the Republican Era
In this dissertation, we show not only that Julius Caesar depicted his struggle with Pompey and the government of the Roman Republic as politically legitimate, but that he grounded this legitimacy primarily in notions of fides.
Hannibal's strategies during the second Carthaginian War with Rome and his ultimate goal of Roman subjugation
After the Battle of Cannae, Hannibal retired to the confines of his camp to celebrate the greatest defeat the Romans had ever suffered, and as the future would hold, anyone would suffer
A Study of Fulvia
Who was Fulvia? Was she the politically aggressive and dominating wife of Mark Antony as Cicero and Plutarch describe her? Or was she a loyal mother and wife, as Asconius and Appian suggest?
Aspects of Roman Republican coins found in Late Iron Age Dacia
Given Virgil’s numismatic interests it seemed appropriate to examine the problem of the Roman republic denarii from late Iron Age Dacia. The finds of denarii in Dacia have been described as “one of the most remarkable phenomena within the pattern of monetary circulation in antiquity…”.