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Toner, Jeremy Peter. "Leisure and ancient Rome." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1993. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272570.
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Bradley, M. "Concepts of colour in ancient Rome." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.596850.
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This thesis is an attempt to understand how Romans of the early empire categorised, organised and applied colours. The study of colour has become familiar territory in recent anthropology, linguistics, art history and archaeology. Classicists, however, have traditionally subordinated the study of colour to form. By drawing together evidence and ideas floated by contemporary philosophers, elegists, epic writers, historians and satirists, this research reinstates colour as an essential informative unit for the classification and evaluation of the Roman world. It also demonstrates that the question of what colour is and how it functions - as well as how it could be abused and mislead the senses - were high on the Roman intellectual agenda. Chapter one examines a range of Roman responses to the rainbow, the locus classicus of colour discrimination and explores how Romans discussed and interpreted this difficult phenomenon. It then demonstrates that such discussion was deeply embedded in a Greek and Hellenistic philosophical tradition which was concerned with the relationship between perception, the physical world, and knowledge. It explores the impact of these debates on Roman discussions of color, and examines key passages on colour from Lucretius, Cicero, Pliny the Elder and Aulus Gellius. The aim of the chapter is to reach an understanding of the scope and nature of concepts of color in early imperial Rome, and the differences between Latin color and our notion of “colour”. Chapter two demonstrates that the Romans had a handful of colours which were primarily displayed and formulated on the body. This chapter studies Roman interpretations of natural skin, hair and eye colour and the strong ties that existed between these categories and behaviour, character and origin, as well as the interpretation of colour changes in the form of blushing and blanching. It then moves on to consider the manipulation of colour through cosmetics and costume dyes, and the ethical problems this generated. The chapter finishes with sea-purple dye (purpura) and argues that this artificial cosmetic colour was an ancient paradigm for the development of “abstract” colours. Chapter three studies the distribution and interpretation of colour in the Roman urban landscape. Discourse on the landscape and architecture of imperial Rome was deeply concerned with the accurate evaluation of the objects one perceived; uiridis and caeruleus, for example, were primarily properties of plants and deep water (rather than abstract colours). The cultural effort that made these colour-object connections, however, is best demonstrated by a consideration of how Romans made sense of a wide range of colourful marbles from all over the empire, classified by origin, rather than (as we normally do) by colour. I finish by comparing responses to two important phases of Roman urban development, that of Augustan Rome and that of Neronian Rome (in particular the Domus Aurea) and explore, from the point of view of colour, some of the philosophical problems that accompanied advanced artistic and architectural techniques and resources.
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McKinnon, Emily Grace. "Ovid's Metamorphoses: Myth and Religion in Ancient Rome." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1483.
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The following with analyze Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a collection of myths, as it relates to mythology in ancient Rome. Through the centuries, the religious beliefs of the Romans have been distorted. By using the Metamorphoses, the intersection between religion and myth was explored to determine how mythology related to religion. To answer this question, I will look at Rome’s religious practices and traditions, how they differed from other religions and the role religion played in Roman culture, as well as the role society played in influencing Ovid’s narrative. During this exploration, it was revealed that there was no single truth in Roman religion, as citizens were able to believe and practice a number of traditions, even those that contradicted one another. Furthermore, the Metamorphoses illustrated three integral aspects of Roman religious beliefs: that the gods existed, required devotion, and actively intervened in mortal affairs.
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Mackenzie, Vanessa E. "Egypt, Rome and Aegyptophilia : rethinking Egypt's relationship with ancient Rome through material culture." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2011. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/50218/.
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This thesis is concerned to demonstrate that Egypt had an important part to play in the formation of the Roman empire. There is a tendency for Classical scholarship to discuss Rome’s relationship with Egypt in terms which fall very far short of the way in which Rome’s encounters with Greek culture are treated. Within scholarship today, any perceived problems with Egypt are still often overstated, while any respect which the Romans may have held for Egyptian culture is dismissed, underplayed or only grudgingly accepted. I intend to re-appraise certain aspects of Egyptian/Egyptianising material culture in order to demonstrate that while some areas of the Roman literary corpus are scattered with apparently derogatory remarks about Egypt, the material evidence tells a quite different story. The aim of this thesis is to examine Egyptian/Egyptianising material culture in order to put the evidence of written texts into a fuller cultural context and perspective. I shall take a chronological approach and intend to focus primarily on artefacts found in the public sphere. The exception will be Chapter Four in which I shall discuss notions about Egypt in the private sphere. The final Chapter will conclude with Hadrian’s era in which the Villa at Tivoli may be seen as an expression of the merging of aspects of both public and private. Octavian’s so-called ‘propaganda’ campaign is central to the question of how scholarship deals with encounters between Egypt and Rome. After Egypt’s incorporation into the new empire of Rome, it was not in Octavian’s interests to continue a hostile disparagement of the country, given his status as pharaoh. I will argue that Octavian set in motion a rehabilitation of the country’s reputation by a policy of appeasement towards Egypt and by incorporating aspects of Egypt’s culture into Rome. It is my contention that Egypt had a greater role to play in the ideology of Rome’s empire, particularly through its first Emperor, than modern scholarship allows. I conclude that the ‘question of Egypt’ while complex, fluid and often contradictory, nevertheless was very much less negative than modern scholarship portrays.
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Miano, Daniele. "The cult of Virtues in Archaic and Mid-Republican Rome." Doctoral thesis, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11384/85657.
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In my thesis I study the origin and historical development at Rome of the cults of Virtues, namely divinities such as Fortuna, Ops, Salus, Victoria, Concordia, etc. Because of the close connection between these cults and the related concepts, I show that the study of these cults is an extremely important tool for investigating and understanding the process of identity-construction in Rome. An important part of my thesis is the study of modern scholarship. I carefully reviewed all the relevant scholarship starting from the 19th century, showing how the way the cults of virtues were explained and represented was heavily influenced by great Enlightenment myths and, in particular, by an evolutionist view of ancient religion. Even when evolutionism was seriously questioned by anthropologists, an evolutionist framework continued to be used for decades by specialists of Roman religion. If we look at Greek and Latin texts, we find out that the cult of virtues was explained as a purely religious phenomenon, whereas personifications existed as a rhetorical and literary technique, which consisted in creating fictional characters to move the audience of a performance. I argue that, without a specific reference to a cult, most literary evidence is useless to draw any reliable information about the cults of Virtues. In the analysis of ancient evidence I focus on three periods, choosing four case studies. The first is the archaic period (6th century BC): I demonstrate that Fortuna and Ops were not agrarian divinities and that their cult played an important role in establishing the political identity of the community. The second is 350–260 BC: I show that the introduction of the cults of Salus and Victoria was part of the process by which the emergent patrician-plebeian nobility attempted to legitimise its own rule. This pattern continues in the final period covered by this research, that of the Punic Wars, in which the cults of Salus and Victoria continue their development. The main conclusions of my thesis are as follows: 1) the cults of Virtues are a characteristic of Roman religion since the beginning of the historical evidence. Therefore, they cannot be used to formulate any evolutionistic or Hellenocentric argument on the history of Roman religion; 2) the (mostly epigraphic) Italian evidence shows that the cults were spread over a huge area already from the Mid-Republican period, both under Roman influence and independently. This suggests that processes of identity-construction built around the cults of Virtues occurred in other Italian cities and communities; 3) from 4th century BC Roman politicians founding temples dedicated to Virtues tried to establish a personal connection with that virtue. These connections, and the ways they are contested by others, are usually implicit rather than explicit. I believe that this depends on the competitiveness of Roman politics; 3) the foundation of the temples of Salus and Victoria do not favour the creation of exemplary stories centred around the founders, and this happens only for characters related to the far past, e.g. Servius Tullius and Fortuna.
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Sarefield, Daniel Christopher. "Burning knowledge : studies of bookburning in ancient Rome /." Download pdf, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1092663236.
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Rutgers, Leonard Victor. "The Jews in late ancient Rome : evidence of cultural interaction in the Roman diaspora /." Leiden ; New York ; Köln : E.J. Brill, 1995. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35749789s.
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Oxley, Eden Grace. "DAUGHTERS OF ROME." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1307996002.
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Mohr, Kyle A. "The Mechanics of Imperialism in the Ancient World." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1210189238.
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Brousseau, Eric. "«Politics and policy: Rome and Liguria 200-172 B.C." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=95100.
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Stephen Dyson's The Creation of the Roman Frontier employs various anthropological models to explain the development of Rome's republican frontiers. His treatment of the Ligurian frontier in the second century BC posits a Ligurian policy' crafted largely by the Senate and Roman frontier tacticians' (i.e. consuls). Dyson consciously avoids incorporating the pressures of domestic politics and the dynamics of aristocratic competition. But his insistence that these factors obscure policy continuities is incorrect. Politics determined policy. This thesis deals with the Ligurian frontier from 200 to 172 BC, years in which Roman involvement in the region was most intense. It shows that individual magistrates controlled policy to a much greater extent than Dyson and other scholars have allowed. The interplay between the competing forces of aristocratic competition and Senatorial consensus best explains the continuities and shifts in regional policy.The Creation of the Roman Frontier, l'uvre de Stephen Dyson, utilise plusieurs modèles anthropologiques pour illuminer le développement de la frontière républicaine. Son traitement de la frontière Ligurienne durant la deuxième siècle avant J.-C. postule une politique' envers les Liguriennes déterminer par le Sénat et les tacticiens de la frontière romain' (les consuls). Dyson fais exprès de ne pas tenir compte des forces de la politique domestique et la compétition aristocratique. Mais son insistance que ces forces cachent les continuités de la politique Ligurienne est incorrecte. Ce thèse évalue les développements dans la Ligurie entre les années 200 et 172 avant J.-C.les trentes ans pendant lesquelles les romains faisaient de la guerre à presque chaque année en Ligurie. La thèse montre que les individus influençaient la politique plus souvent et plus fortement que Dyson et autres historien(ne)s concèdent. Les continuités et changement dans la politique régionale sont mieux expliqués selon un cadre qui prend compte de la tension entre la compétition aristocratique et le consensus Sénatorial.
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Hereld, Shoshana. ""A living history" : ancient Rome on Wilson Barrett's stage." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/62899.
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The toga dramas of late nineteenth-century British actor-manager Wilson Barrett provide important evidence on the relationship between the Classics and Victorian theater. In his depictions of ancient Rome, Barrett married the popularity of melodrama with the passion for classical antiquity, reflecting changes in the Victorian social world at the end of the nineteenth century: the increasing prominence of melodrama and the blurring of artistic genres; the increasing accessibility of classical knowledge; and obsessions with historicity. Drawing on scripts, contemporary reviews, and photographs, I investigate the ways in which Barrett’s work navigates the existing social scene in both theater and society at large. By exploring the splendor of Victorian melodrama, the British tastes for the Classics, and the relationship between authenticity and theatricality, this thesis uses Wilson Barrett’s work to demonstrate important features of both Victorian theater and society at large at the end of the nineteenth century.Arts, Faculty of
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Bartolini, Nadia. "Modernizing the ancient : brecciation, materiality and memory in Rome." Thesis, Open University, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.543851.
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Goddard, Justin Philip. "Moral attitudes to eating and drinking in ancient Rome." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272635.
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Trygstad, Emily J. "Excellence Redefined: The Evolution of Virtus in Ancient Rome." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1271972341.
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DeWitt, Helen Marsh. "Quo virtus? : the concept of propriety in ancient literary criticism." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1987. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8001826b-03c5-4a37-a2e2-8f7966f5f375.
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The standard of propriety is frequently appealed to in ancient literary discourse, most notably in discussions of poetics, criticism of literary works and precepts for composition. Its importance derives from the audience orientation of most ancient discussions of literature: writers were interested in the ways various forms of speech and writing had to be accommodated to their audience in order to achieve particular effects. Discussion of the representation of character, for instance, explored the ways that fictional persons or oratorical speakers could be made moving and convincing: they must conform to common preconceptions about the behviour and language suitable to their rank, sex, age, nationality, education. This raises important questions about the concept of propriety. First, is it coherent? It seems to depend heavily on the assumption that audiences are homogeneous; in practice, however, ancient writers recognise wide disparities in readers and spectators, and are often ready to accuse certain types of audience of bad taste. The concept is thus embroiled in the general aesthetic problem of the nature of taste: can criteria for artistic excellence be found which are independent of what people happen to like, and which can therefore justify claims about what they should like? Second, where does use of the concept place ancient literary discussion in relation to various forms of modern literary theory and criticism? A large number of modern movements have held it as axiomatic that the excellence of art lies in defeating the preconceptions of the audience; does ancient criticism have any defence against such a position? Both of these points touch on further issues: the place of literature and oratory in Greek and Roman societies, and the connection between literary discourse and other types of intellectual activity, most notably philosophy (propriety is equally important in most ancient moral philosophy). I consider these points in connection with major poetic genres, rhetoric, and the question of linguistic purity.
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Ballestrazzi, Chiara. "In artum coacta rerum naturae maiestatis : le gemme in Grecia e a Roma fra materia e ars." Doctoral thesis, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11384/85825.
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Lennon, Jack. "Carnal, bloody and unnatural acts : religious pollution in ancient Rome." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2011. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12550/.
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The aim of this thesis is to define and explore the nature of pollution and purity in pre-Christian Roman religion, focussing particularly on the late Republic and the early Principate. In spite of the established position of these themes in studies of Greek religion, there remains no comprehensive treatment of pollution and purity in Roman religion. The thesis exploits the approaches established by modern anthropology and classical philology to examine several aspects of religious pollution, focussing primarily on the role of the human body within religious activity. Chapter One examines the wide-ranging vocabulary of impurity in the Latin language, and identifies the main linguistic registers in which pollution and purity featured. The second chapter explores the various dangers posed to religious procedures by sexual acts and emissions. Chapter Three continues this theme, considering blood as a polluting and purifying agent in the context of Roman law, sacrifice and warfare. Chapter Four focuses on death pollution, in particular the removal of the corpse, the status of those who worked constantly around death, and the annual rites of propitiation and the subsequent purification of the city. These various strands are drawn together in the fifth chapter, which explores their use within the oratory of Cicero as a weapon to discredit the religious authority of his opponents.
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Young, Gayle. "A worthy warrior queen perceptions of Zenobia in ancient Rome /." Connect to Electronic Thesis (CONTENTdm), 2009. http://worldcat.org/oclc/457162769/viewonline.
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Racine, Félix. "Monsters at the edges of the world : geography and rhetoric under the Roman empire." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79974.
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Descriptions of the edges of the Roman world were shaped by social preoccupations and identity issues. Living in a newly unified Roman world, the popularizing geographers of the early Empire (Strabo, Mela, Pliny) used descriptions of fictional and remote people such as the utopian Hyperboreans, the cannibal Scythians and the monstrous Dog-Heads to present customs and behaviors that were utterly un-Roman. These rhetorical descriptions helped define Roman identity through antithetical exempla. In contrast to this, the fifth and sixth centuries, the anonymous authors of legends surrounding the figure of Saint Christopher witnessed a crisis of Roman identity fostered by a new 'barbarian' presence within the Empire and by the expansion of the Christian (i.e. Roman) faith outside of the Empire. Their response was to tear down the ginary barrier between the Roman world and fictional, remote people and to proclaim the forceful Christianization of distant lands.
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Baker, James C. "Paul and Slavery: a Conflict of Metaphor and Reality." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2013. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc407813/.
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The debate on Paul’s views on slavery has ranged from calling him criminal in his enforcement of the status quo to rallying behind his idea of equal Christians in a community. In this thesis I blend these two major views into the idea that Paul supported both the institution of slavery and the slave by legitimizing the role of the slave in Christian theology. This is done by reviewing the mainstream views of slavery, comparing them to Paul’s writing, both the non-disputed and disputed, and detailing how Paul’s presentation of slavery differed from mainstream views. It is this difference which protects the slave from their master and brings attention to the slave’s actions and devotion. To Paul, slavery was a natural institution which should be emulated Christian devotion. He did not challenge the Romans but called for Christians to challenge the mainstream views of the roles of slavery in the social hierarchy of their communities.
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Granitz, Nicholas. "Heracles and the Foundings of Sparta and Rome." Ashland University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=auhonors1324002404.
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Nielsen, Dana K. 1968. "The prodigies of the ancient Roman Republic and their chronology : a resource for modern science." Monash University, Dept. of Classics and Archaeology, 1999. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/7951.
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Olivito, Riccardo. "Il fòro nell'atrio : scene di vita e di mercato nei Praedia di Iulia Felix (Pompei II, 4, 3)." Doctoral thesis, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11384/85824.
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Hastings, Ingrid. "The politics of public records at Rome in the late republic and early empire." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22489.
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Bibliography: pages 287-298.This study explores the relationship between political developments and the keeping of public records at Rome during a crucial time of transition in the inter-connected fields of constitutional law, politics, and administrative practices. The political value of control over records is illustrated in the Struggle of the Orders and remained a dominant issue. That knowledge is power was a reality implicitly recognised in the aristocratic constitution of the Republic, geared as it was to maintain popular political ignorance generally and so to perpetuate the dominance of a particular minority class. Throughout Republican history the question of exposure or repression of such knowledge was grounded in the socio-political tensions of a class-struggle. Translated into the changed setting of the early Principate, the same awareness of the value of control over access to state knowledge is exhibited by the emperor. Particularly relevant was the Augustan ban on the publication of senatorial proceedings, since the relationship between senate and emperor was an area where the increasingly autocratic nature of the emperor's position was most difficult to disguise.
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Eastlake, Laura Joanne. "Engendering antiquity : masculinity and ancient Rome in the Victorian cultural imagination." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2014. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/6087/.
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This thesis examines nineteenth-century receptions of ancient Rome, with a specific focus on how those receptions were deployed to create useable models of masculinity. I suggest that Rome represents a contested space in the Victorian cultural imagination, with an array of possible scripts and narratives that could be harnessed to articulate masculine ideals, or to vilify perceived deviance from those ideals. Thus, this thesis presents a model of nineteenth-century manliness wherein masculine dominance is derived from the perceived authority to assign meaning to Rome as an image, and to determine its usage either as a badge of merit or a condemnation of certain gendered traits. After establishing in the opening chapter the centrality of Latin and a classical education to elite male identities at both individual and collective levels, the remainder of this thesis charts the place and function of the Roman parallel in the construction of several key ‘styles’ of nineteenth-century masculinity, from the man of letters and the industrialist, to the New Imperialist and the dandy. In this way I account for the multifarious and often contradictory treatments of the Roman example in Victorian literature where, for instance, the same Roman parallel was used to capture the martial virtue of Wellington as was used to condemn the deviance and degeneracy of Oscar Wilde. Understood through the lens of masculine identity, Victorian receptions of Rome become more comprehensible: Rome is contested because masculinity is contested; there are many competing visions of Rome because there are many competing styles of masculinity. Far from attempting to artificially homogenize or to impose a singular narrative of Victorian reception, the aim of this thesis is to explore its complexity and to explain its central conflict as a struggle over the codification of manliness whereby the cultural authority to assign meaning to the Roman age is equivalent to and indicative of the power to speak authoritatively about masculinity in the present.
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Lightfoot, Jane Lucy. "Parthenius." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.340002.
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McCarthy, Brendan James. "Going Viral in Ancient Rome: Spreading and Controlling Information in the Roman Republic." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1523555735651174.
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Colwill, David. "'Genocide' and Rome, 343-146 BCE : state expansion and the social dynamics of annihilation." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2017. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/109080/.
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As the nascent power of Rome grew to dominance over the Mediterranean world in the Middle Republic, they carried out mass killing, mass enslavement, and urban annihilation. In doing so, they showed an intention to destroy other groups, therefore committing genocide. This study looks at the kinds of destruction enacted by Romans between 343 BCE and 146 BCE, using a novel application of definitions and frameworks of analysis from the field of Genocide Studies. It proposes typologies through which the genocidal behaviours of the Romans can be explored and described. Mass killing, enslavement, and urban annihilation normally occurred in the context of siege warfare, when the entire population became legitimate targets. Initial indiscriminate killing could be followed by the enslavement of the survivors and burning of their settlement. While genocide is a valid historiographical tool of analysis, Roman behaviours were distinct from modern patterns of mass killing in lacking a substantial component of racial or ethnic motivation. These phenomena were complex and varied, and the utter destruction of groups not regularly intended. Roman genocidal violence was a normative, but not typical, adaptation of the Romans of the Middle Republic to the ancient anarchic interstate system. In antiquity, there was no international law to govern conflict and international relations, only customs. This study posits that the Roman moral-based custom of fides as an internal preventative regime that inhibited genocide through rituals of submission to Roman hegemony. This process was flawed, and cultural miscommunication risked causing mass violence. Furthermore, the wide discretion of Roman commanders accepting submission could result in them flouting the moral obligation to protect ii surrendered groups. In such cases, attempts at punishment and restitution from other members of the elite were only partially effective.
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Mészáros, Alexis. "Construire la première république romaine : (VIe-IIIe siècles avant Jésus-Christ)." Thesis, Paris 1, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA01H081.
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La première république romaine (509-218 av. J.-C.) ne correspond pas à un régime politique particulier mais à une construction historiographique amorcée à partir du IIe s. av. J.- C. Les ressorts institutionnels des trois premiers siècles de la République étaient déjà incompréhensibles des Romains eux-mêmes. L’histoire de cette période servit plutôt à créer ou à faire disparaître des précédents, afin de légaliser ou non une action. Les événements lus par les historiens modernes sont le produit de strates historiographiques (des historiens grecs du IIIe s. av. J.-C. aux éditeurs des XIXe et XXe s.) et de logiques propres à chaque strate qui permettent d’élaborer un récit cohérent. L’étude comporte une analyse détaillée de ces strates. Elle propose une méthode d’analyse de la première république appliquée notamment à la construction de la dictature, magistrature emblématique de la République romaineThe first roman republic (509-218 B.C.) is not a specific regime but a historiographical elaboration beginning in the Second Century B.C. For the Romans themselves, the real operation of the institutions were lost for the first three centuries of the Republic. The history of this time was rather used to create or delete constitutionnal precedents in order to legalize (or not) some later behaviours. Events read by modern scholars are the product of historiographical stratums (from the Greek historians in the 3rd Century B.C. to the editors of the 19th and 20th centuries) and logics present in each stratum in order to elaborate a consistent story. The study includes a detailed analysis of these stratums and proposed a new method to analyze the first republic. This method is especially applied to the construction of dictatorship, typical magistrature of the Roman Republic
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Beardmore, Michael Ian. "Ancient weather signs : texts, science and tradition." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4103.
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This thesis offers a new contextualisation of weather signs, naturally occurring terrestrial indicators of weather change (from, for example, animals, plants and atmospheric phenomena), in antiquity. It asks how the utility of this method of prediction was perceived and presented in ancient sources and studies the range of answers given across almost eight hundred years of Greek and Roman civilisation. The presentation of weather signs is compared throughout to that of another predictive method, astrometeorology, which uses the movement of the stars as markers of approaching weather. The first chapter deals with the presentation and discussion of weather signs in a range of Greek texts. It sees hesitant trust being placed in weather signs, lists of which were constructed so as to be underpinned by astronomical knowledge. The second chapter assesses how these Greek lists were received and assimilated into Roman intellectual discourse by looking to the strikingly similar practice of divining by portents. This lays the foundations for the final chapter, which describes and explains the Roman treatment of weather signs. Here, the perceived utility of weather signs can be seen to reduce rapidly as the cultural significance of astronomy reaches new heights. This thesis provides new readings and interpretations of a range of weather-based passages and texts, from the Pseudo-Theophrastan De Signis, to Lucan's Pharsalia, to Pliny's Natural History, many of which have previously been greatly understudied or oversimplified. It allows us to understand the social and scientific place of weather prediction in the ancient world and therefore how abstract and elaborate ideas and theories filtered in to the seemingly commonplace and everyday. I argue that between the 7th century BC and the end of the 1st century AD, the treatment of weather signs changes from being framed in fundamentally practical terms to one in which practical considerations were negligible or absent. As this occurred, astrometeorology comes to be seen as the only predictive method worthy of detailed attention. These two processes, I suggest, were linked.
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Layne, Jaime Marie. "The enculturative function of toys and games in ancient Greece and Rome." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/9209.
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Thesis (M.A.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2008.Thesis research directed by: Dept. of History. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Rowell, Diana C. "Ancient Rome, Louis XIV and the reinvention of Paris under Napoleon I." Thesis, University of Reading, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.515771.
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Bruun, Christer. "The water supply of Ancient Rome : a study of Roman imperial administration /." Helsinki : The Finnish society of sciences and letters, 1991. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb355609599.
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Cramer, David Wayne. "The power of gender and the gender of power in ancient Rome /." Digital version accessible at:, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Garman, Sebastian Philip. "Foundation myths and political identity ancient Rome and Anglo-Saxon England compared /." Thesis, Online version, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?did=1&uin=uk.bl.ethos.311463.
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Nilsson, Linnéa. "Antikens barnmorskor : Männens berättelser om kvinnan." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-353593.
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Murgatroyd, Jennifer Leigh. "Ancient mortar production in Ostia, Italy : builders and their choices." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2016. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:358de9ea-d89b-4053-84c7-0fdc29340bb2.
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The main objective of the research discussed in this thesis was to evaluate the methods and materials used by builders in ancient Ostia to produce mortar for masonry structures. The work was conducted with an eye toward understanding why the ancient builders selected specific materials and employed specific techniques. The research design included scientific investigations of mortar samples from selected structures in Ostia, all dated from brick stamp evidence to the 2nd century CE. The methods employed for this study included thin section petrography, modal analysis via point counting, scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and image analysis. Results concluded the samples comprised lime binder and primarily volcanic tuff aggregates derived from the Colli Albani and Monti Sabatini volcanic districts. The selection of these aggregates was integral to mortar performance, as they contained alteration products that would have facilitated pozzolanic reactions during the production phase, greatly improving long term mortar performance and durability. Three distinct types of mortar representing unique mix designs were identified based on the material properties of the mortar samples and the dominant aggregate types. Unique mixes may have been proprietary to specific groups of builders in Ostia, which had been identified by other researchers comparing the architectural features and construction styles of various structures. The results of material analyses showed that the builders from 2nd century Ostia were highly skilled, used sophisticated techniques to produce high quality mortar, and that separate groups of builders employed unique mix designs to achieve similar results.
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Cameron, Myles Allen. "From Rome to the Periphery| Rethinking Identity in the Metropoles of Roman Egypt." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1601747.
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Prior to the addition of Egypt to the imperial state of Rome, the presence and influence of Roman culture in Egypt was not as strong as it was in other regions surrounding the Mediterranean. Under Augustus’ rule, Egypt was added to Rome’s growing empire and the grain which grew so very well along the Nile began to flow out of Egypt towards Rome. Egyptian cities such as Alexandria became entrepots for Rome where trade was centered. This addition to the empire provided larger and different markets of exchange which enabled goods and ideas to be transferred within the cities of Egypt. These goods and ideas permeated the centers of exchange and their surrounding regions. As the influence of Rome grew within the metropoles of Egypt during its imperial reign, the lines which previously categorized and defined the boundaries of ethnicity and identity in the region began to blur.
In the wake of decolonization, historians have postulated that identity has become less of an absolute within modern empires. Recently there has been an increase of scholarship surrounding the phenomenon of identity in the ancient world, specifically looking at identity within imperial political systems. This work will utilize some aspects of modern imperial theory to attempt to show that identity within Rome’s empire was in many ways similar to more modern imperial states. I will be using a variety of primary sources to supplement the secondary academic work I will also utilize. Specifically I will be looking at Imperial decrees, coins, papyrus documents (personal letters, receipts, legal documents, and army discharges), inscriptions, material culture, public spaces, and recent archaeology (funeral arrangements and Roman Mummies). Through looking at and analyzing these primary sources I will attempt to show how identity formation in Roman Egypt was blurred and not set by clear distinctions. The use of multiple differing primary sources and modern imperial theories have not, to my understanding, be attempted thus far. Nor has my claim been argued, that while there was a Romanization of those in Egypt, there was also a slight Egyptianzation of those Romans living in Egypt.
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Grau, Donatien. "Le roman romain : généalogie d'un genre français." Thesis, Paris 4, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA040069.
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Cette thèse a pour but d’étudier l’émergence et le développement dans la littérature française d’un genre nouveau, du début du XIXe jusqu’à la fin du XXe siècle : le roman romain à sujet contemporain. N’évoquant pas la stabilité de la Ville antique, de ses ruines et de ses monuments, mais le paysage urbain et humain en mouvement de l’époque, il rompt avec la tradition du Grand Tour, qui était implicitement fondée sur la notion qu’aucune fiction ne pouvait être inventée dans le présent éternel de Rome, puisque la perception qu’on en pouvait nourrir était si profondément ancrée dans le passé. En faisant usage du roman, les écrivains étaient confrontés simultanément à la modernité du médium et à la modernisation urbaine et politique de la Ville, alors qu’ils avaient toujours à l’esprit le signe de Rome – le mythe de la Ville Éternelle. Les romans situés dans la Rome contemporaine fournissaient à leurs auteurs la possibilité de traiter des questions les plus fondamentales de l’éthique et de l’esthétique dela fiction : le rôle de la croyance dans la civilisation moderne – en terme de religion et de son contrepoint, la fiction littéraire ; le rôle du passé dans la construction de la modernité ; l’importance du présent dans l’expérience du passé ; la signification des Anciens à l’époque des Modernes. Analyser les formes du roman français à sujet romain contemporain signifie plus encore que de se confronter au portrait d’une ville : c’est une étude de la pertinence des paradigmes occidentauxThis thesis aims to address the emergence and the development in French literature of a whole new genre, from the beginning of the 19th until the end of the 20th century: the contemporaneous Roman-themed novel. Dealing not with the stability of the Ancient City, its ruins and its monuments, but with the shifting urban and human landscape of the time, it disrupts the tradition of the Grand Tour, which was implicitly based on the notion that no fiction could be invented in the eternal present of Rome, since the perception one could have there was so deeply rooted in the past. By using the novel, writers were simultaneously confronted to the modernity of the medium and to the urban and political modernisation of the city, while the sign of Rome – the myth of the Eternal City – was always present in their mind. Novels set in contemporaneous Rome provided their authors with the possibility to engage with the most crucial issues inherent to the aesthetics and ethics of fiction: the role of belief in modern cultures – in terms of religion and its counterpart, literary fiction; the role of the past in the construction of modernity; the importance of the present in the experience of the past; the meaning of the Ancients at the time of the Moderns. Analysing the forms of the French contemporaneous Roman-themed novel signifies even more than engaging with the portrait of a city: it is a study in the relevance of Western paradigms
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Miles, Deri Pode. "Forbidden pleasures : sumptuary laws and the ideology of moral decline in Ancient Rome." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1987. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1141131/.
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This thesis investigates two important and related aspects of Roman history during the period 217 B.C. - A.D. 70. Salient types of social legislation, in particular the leges sumptuariae, funerariae, aleariae, marital and sexual laws and magisterial edicts, form one element of the inquiry. The reasons for, and the extent of, the public regulation of the personal expenditure and private behaviour of citizens are explored under the changing political circumstances of the period. Another concern is to analyse the development of a prominent theme in the classical writers and historians, namely, the perspective of moral decline. The deep-rooted and pervasive pessimism evident in the historiographical tradition during a period of exceptional prosperity and imperial expansion is critically examined. The interaction between law and morality is a principal focus of this thesis. In chapter 1 (10-30), the general themes of the work are introduced. A review of the relevant scholarly literature is followed by a brief exposition of my methodology and objectives (11-13). Then a chronological survey of the important social regulations passed during the Republic and early Principate is provided (13-17). Chapter 2 (31-72) probes the ways in which legal enactments were presented both within governing circles and to the populace at large. The public interest was frequently invoked. Paternalistic concern, it is argued, was often advanced for that which was essentially self-regarding (31-36). A succinct account of the debate on decline in classical authors leads to a consideration of the mos maiorum (ancestral custom) and the role of myth in Roman historiography (36-46). The contemporary dispute between liberal and radical scholarship on the nature and function of law in society is summarized (46-50). In Ancient Rome, it is contended, the governing order's preferential access to the channels of public discussion was of decisive importance. It facilitated the expression of an ideological perspective which served to promote widespread acceptance of its legislative needs, as is exemplified by the passage of sumptuary controls so necessary for the well-being of the senatorial aristocracy in the second century B.C. (50-52). The socio-economic significance of Roman sumptuary laws is examined in chapter 3 (73-163). The main discussion is prefaced by a typology of sumptuary laws, designed to account for the existence of expenditure restraint in widely differing political systems (73-75). The inquiry proceeds, firstly, to investigate those regulations (esp. the iura and 1eges theatrales) which had a direct bearing on the structure of Roman society and, then, to explore the complexity of problems that the maintenance of this formal framework entailed for the authorities in periods of rapid social and economic change. A consideration of powerful social pressures and forces such as envy, emulative consumption and mobility, is complemented by a discussion of the diverse strategies employed by the Roman authorities to uphold hierarchical distinctions (75-107). Profit-capping, price-fixing, monopolies and rationing form diverse topics of an inquiry into the economic objectives of sumptuary restraint (108-119), Status requirements and the spiralling cost of political competition are held to account tor the divorce between the attitudes and practice of the members of the governing order with regard to luxus and Hellenistic practices (119-128). A detailed inspection of the sumptuary legislation passed during the Republic provides the core or chapter (164-210). The laws are assessed under separate categories, e.g. leges de sumptibus et de luxu mensae, funerariae, de habitu et tuitu, viariae (164-182). The techniques by which the aristocracy endeavoured to preserve cohesion amongst its ranks and thus to uphold its collective rule are scrutinized 182-2. In chapter 5 (211-259), attention is focused on how the Roman authorities attempted to compel obedience to these measures. The operation of extra-legal constraints is discussed c 211-2l4). A hypothesis of the development of Roman criminal law from its origins through to the early Principate is advanced with particular emphasis on the significance of senatorial participation in the juridical process and on the need to define accurately the competency of individual magistracies (214-239). The use of private informers (quadruplatores in the Republic, delatores in the Empire) is critically assessed (239-243). In chapter 6 (260-288), opinions and actions at variance with the conservative orthodoxy on historical development are evaluated. Resistance to sumptuary restraint surfaced in a variety of ways: in the formal abrogation of a measure; in technical dodges; in outright defiance (260-268). The ambivalences between publicly expressed ideals of conduct and actual practice came to a head in the adjudicative processes of the court. The mechanisms of forensic practice served to provoke maturer reflections on social change (269-273). Roman attitudes towards change are surveyed. It is argued that divergent opinions on ancestral tradition and on the propriety of innovation were often advanced in opposition to overzealous attempts at sumptuary restraint or in pursuit of specific political goals (269-279). Chapter 7 (289-329) concludes the work with a historical appraisal of the coincidence between the passage of sumptuary legislation and the debate on moral decline. Three major developments in the functioning of this coincidence are outlined: (1), its use as a regulatory device by the senatorial aristocracy from the early 2nd century B.C. onwards; (2), its use as a crucial source of legitimation by the aspiring politician-generals of the 1st century B.C.; (3), its use as a key disciplinary tactic by the imperial regimes from Augustus onwards (289-307). Finally, serious governmental incursions into central areas of social life during the early Principate - the suppression of criticism, legal scrutiny of knowledge and belief, restrictions on assemblage - are examined, and interpreted as evidencing the autocratic tendencies of the period (308-315). Four short appendices follow (330-361): the first outlines the major theories of decline (330-333): the second explores the terminology of inequality (334-339; the third surveys the major perspectives on social change (340-342); the fourth documents the manifestations of luxury in Roman society (343-361).
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Cokayne, Karen. "The experience of ageing in ancient Rome : physical, intellectual, social and emotional dimensions." Thesis, University of Reading, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.343228.
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McKnight, Elizabeth Sarah. "Ideas of the rule of law in Ancient Rome : from Republic to Empire." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2018. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10054245/.
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Cicero, Livy and the younger Pliny all claimed that the Roman republic, or the Trajanic principate, offered citizens a freedom that depended on governance according to the law. But did they contemplate that the Roman legal system conformed to the rule of law as it is now understood? Chapter I outlines a model of the rule of law advanced by Lon Fuller and briefly considers certain features of the legal system of the late Roman republic by reference to this model. Chapters II to IV examine in more detail Cicero's conception of the Roman legal system; Livy's treatment of the evolution of the republic as a society subject to the commands of the laws; and (more briefly) the younger Seneca's proposal to Nero of an alternative model of governance of Roman society, and Pliny's claims that Trajan had restored the rule of law by, in some sense, subjecting himself to the laws. By comparing their presentations of Rome's legal system with Fuller's model, the thesis draws out distinctive aspects of each author's ideas; it concludes that Cicero, Livy and Pliny all identified and valued features of the Roman legal system contemplated by Fuller's model to be central to the rule of law, but each author emphasised different aspects of the law as central to its effectiveness. Seneca provides an informative contrast. In exploring these matters, the thesis examines the treatment of the law in different literary genres; the relationship between legal reasoning, on the one hand, and rhetoric and philosophy, on the other; the role of examples in legal reasoning; and the authors' exploration of extra-legal grounds for commitment to the rule of law.
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Ewin, Kristan Foust. "The Argei: Sex, War, and Crucifixion in Rome and the Ancient Near East." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2012. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc115076/.
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The purpose of the Roman Argei ceremony, during which the Vestal Virgins harvested made and paraded rush puppets only to throw them into the Tiber, is widely debated. Modern historians supply three main reasons for the purpose of the Argei: an agrarian act, a scapegoat, and finally as an offering averting deceased spirits or Lares. I suggest that the ceremony also related to war and the spectacle of displaying war casualties. I compare the ancient Near East and Rome and connect the element of war and husbandry and claim that the Argei paralleled the sacred marriage. in addition to an agricultural and purification rite, these rituals may have served as sympathetic magic for pre- and inter-war periods. As of yet, no author has proposed the Argei as a ceremony related to war. By looking at the Argei holistically I open the door for a new direction of inquiry on the Argei ceremony, fertility cults in the Near East and in Rome, and on the execution of war criminals.The Argei and new year’s sacred marriage both occurred during the initiation of campaign and spring planting and harvest season. Both in the ancient Near East and in Rome, animal victims were sacrificed and displayed through impaling, crucifixion, and hanging for fertility and in war. for both Rome and the Near East war casualties were displayed on sacred trees. Through the Near East cultures a strong correlation existed between impaling, hanging, and crucifixion in war and Sacred Tree fertility worship. By examining Roman tree worship, military rituals, and agricultural ceremonies a similar correlation becomes apparent. on the same day of the Argei, Mars was married to the anthropomorphized new year and within the month became a scapegoat expelled from the city. Additionally, on the first day of the Argei boys became soldiers.
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Auanger, Lisa. "A catalog of images of women in the official arts of ancient Rome /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9841130.
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Nierle, Joshua. "All these things I will give to you| The political rise of the individual in ancient Rome." Thesis, Regent University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10111391.
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Despite myriad causes given to the end of Republican Rome and the beginning of Imperial Rome, there still remains a basic truth: the form of political rule and the institutions that structured this rule changed in the span of about a hundred years, from Sulla’s first armed takeover in 88-87 B.C. to Augustus’s death in 14 A.D. After Sulla, the political institutions of Republican Rome became a façade; within a couple of generations they were a farce. I argue in this paper that the effect of the individual on this loss of institutional inviolability is vital to understanding both how it happened and what came after.
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Assarsson, Emma. "Skådespelerskor och dansöser i det antika Rom." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Antikens kultur och samhällsliv, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-420474.
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Today modern scholars only have few records left that discusses the plebeian women from the Roman society. One group that is known are females who appeared on the Roman stage as dancers and actresses. This paper serves to discuss those two groups. It will focus on the Roman authors attitudes towards female actresses and dancers during the 1 century BC from two points of views: terminology and descriptions. The study will prioritize text passages from three ancient Roman authors during the investigative time-period with focus on three women: Volumnia Cytheris, Dionysia, and Arbuscula. These women, could if successful, integrate the elite society and gain richness and reputation. They often had names and terminology that represented and identified them to a specific social class in the Roman society. These women’s lives, have mostly during the 21 centuries, been discussed and debated from different gender and class aspects with focus to increase our understanding about them. A discussion this paper tends to contribute to.
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Slingsby, Elisabeth. "Tyranny Under the Triumvirs: Statesmen and Sole Rulers in Cornelius Nepos’ ‘De Excellentibus Ducibus Exterarum Gentium’." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/20672.
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This thesis argues that Cornelius Nepos’ depiction of tyrants in De Excellentibus Ducibus Exterarum Gentium primarily reflects the concerns not of his Greek sources but of Triumviral Rome. Since Geiger’s seminal monograph, Cornelius Nepos and Ancient Political Biography, was published in 1985, there has been renewed scholarly interest in Nepos’ so-called Foreign Generals. While Nepos’ depiction of despots in this book of biographies has often been noted, discussion focuses almost exclusively on the figures of the righteous general and the duplicitous tyrant. In this thesis, I contend that not all of Nepos’ tyrants are cruel cardboard cut outs, destined to be vanquished by virtuous generals. Indeed, I explore the complexities which arise when the lines between statesman and sole ruler become blurred, when the general becomes the tyrant. In a series of three case studies, I demonstrate that Nepos uses such leaders to articulate the perils and merits of autocracy at a time when Rome was shifting ever closer to sole rule. In my first chapter, I compare Life of Miltiades and Life of Timoleon in order to ascertain the circumstances under which Nepos believed a democratic community could flourish under a single leader. I begin by delineating Nepos’ model of admirable sole rule: a kind of elective kingship that furnishes Miltiades and Timoleon with sufficient power to rule alongside, but not over, their respective communities. I then establish that Nepos uses the Triumviral conceptualisation of dominatio and libertas to emphasise that this model will only succeed in the hands of a Timoleon, a leader who would sooner relinquish all authority than see the people’s freedom limited. My second chapter accounts for Nepos’ deviation from traditional tales of tyrannicide in Life of Dion. Through an examination of the parallels between this biography and representations of the assassination of Julius Caesar, I demonstrate that Nepos perceived tyrannicide as a murky, morally ambiguous deed, the ramifications of which far outweigh any possible benefits. In my third chapter, I analyse the manner in which Nepos blends Greek descriptions of Alcibiades with Latin depictions of divisive leaders in Life of Alcibiades, in order to question how the populace should respond to a magistrate they suspect is aiming at tyranny. I argue that Nepos’ decision not to provide a definitive answer reflects his own deep-seated uncertainty about the future of Rome under the Triumvirs. Through these three case studies, I demonstrate that Nepos has a consistent vision of the successes and shortcomings of sole rule. His vision, though drawn from Greek sources and articulated in his biographies of Greek generals, primarily reflects Roman concerns about the exercise of absolute power. This thesis thus sheds new light on Nepos’ biographical method and provides new insights into the conceptualisation of tyranny under the Triumvirs.
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Constant, Marie-Luce. "Recherches sur la condition personnelle et sociale des licteurs à Rome du premier siècle avant notre ère à la fin de l'époque des sévères." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/10291.
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Par ce travail de recherche, j'ai tente de reunir les donnees necessaires pour brosser un tableau vraisemblable, sur le plan historique, de la condition personnelle et sociale d'un licteur romain, entre le Ier siecle av. notre ere et la fin du IIe siecle de notre ere. Nous manquons encore de donnees sur la mobilite sociale et la condition personnelle des tranches intermediaires de la population romaine. J'ai entrepris cette etude pour essayer d'apporter une modeste contribution a la connaissance de cet aspect encore flou. Le licteur, qui entre dans la categorie des appariteurs, differe toutefois des autres employes de l'administration publique (viateurs, herauts et scribes notamment) parce que pour les auteurs romains, il est d'abord et avant tout le symbole de l'imperium. Cet aspect a ete abondamment etudie par les chercheurs modernes, mais jusqu'a present, peu d'historiens se sont interesses au personnage qui se cache derriere le symbole, a l'homme, au "fonctionnaire". Qui devenait licteur? Pourquoi et comment devenait-on licteur? Dans quelles conditions un licteur exercait-il son metier? S'agissait-il d'un "metier" au sens habituel du terme? Le licteur pouvait-il s'interesser a d'autres activites? Quelle etait la place du licteur dans la societe romaine? J'ai exploite le materiel epigraphique, les sources litteraires et, dans une mesure moindre, les temoignages iconographiques pour tenter d'apporter des reponses a ces questions. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Penman, Jill Diana. "Spolia and Spectacle: Art Collecting Culture in Late Republican Rome." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/702.
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This thesis looks at the evolution of art collection in the middle to late Roman Republic. Through the examination of military triumphs, manubial structures, and the sculpture collection of the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum, this paper investigates the social motivations for art collection. Art’s role in Roman society as both spolia and luxuria is discussed through use of ancient literary sources and archaeological evidence. The evolving role of collection is considered as an expression of national and social identity in a politically changing Rome.
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Rodríguez, Danés Jordi. "L’antiguitat clàssica en les TIC: videojocs i gamificació." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/665384.
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Aquesta tesi aborda un nou camp d’estudis: els Historical Game Studies, o estudi de videojocs de temàtica històrica, la naturalesa del qual és l’anàlisi dels videojocs en el seu sentit més ampli, i de les relacions que s’estableixen entre el joc i el jugador. El punt de partida són els Game Studies, que estableixen els videojocs com a objecte cultural. En aquest sentit, el treball s’emmarca com a camp específic dins de les TIC (Tecnologies de la Informació i la Comunicació). Sota aquestes premisses, analitzarem un seguit de videojocs, ubicats temàticament en el període de l’Antiga Roma, prenent com a criteri de selecció el seu impacte comercial, amb l’objectiu d’estudiar quina visió donen del passat. Entenem els videojocs, doncs, com un element més de la cultura contemporània i de la visió que des del present es té del passat. Examinem també les opinions, a favor o en contra, sobre els videojocs, i les possibilitats (didàctiques, tecnològiques, recreatives...) que aquests ofereixen a les disciplines històriques, analitzant aquells aspectes més rellevants i proposant la millor forma d’abordar aquests tipus de jocs des de l’àmbit acadèmic. En aquest darrer aspecte, proposem un nou marc teòric i metodològic que faciliti l’estudi dels Historical Game Studies.This thesis addresses a new field of studies: the Historical Game Studies, or the study of historical-themed videogames, whose nature is the analysis of video games in its broadest sense, and the relationships established between the game and the player. The starting point is Game Studies, which establishes video games as a cultural object. In this sense, the work is framed as a specific field within ICT (Information Technology and Communication). Under these premises, we will analyze a series of video games, located in the period of Ancient Rome, taking as a selection criterion its commercial impact, in order to verify what vision they give from the past. We understand video games, then, as an element of contemporary culture and of the vision that from the present is of the past. We will also examine the opinions, for or against, about video games, and the possibilities (didactic, technological, recreational ...) that these offer to historical disciplines, analyzing those aspects that are more relevant and proposing the best way to approach them types of games from the academic sphere. In this last aspect, we propose a new theoretical and methodological framework that will help to study the Historical Game Studies.