Coins of the Roman Revolution, 49 BC-AD 14 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Coins of the Roman Revolution, 49 BC-AD 14 write by Andrew Burnett. This book was released on 2020-12-15. Coins of the Roman Revolution, 49 BC-AD 14 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Coins of the best-known Roman revolutionary era allow rival pretenders to speak to us directly. After the deaths of Caesar and Cicero (in 44 and 43 BC) hardly one word has been reliably transmitted to us from even the two most powerful opponents of Octavian: Mark Antony and Sextus Pompeius - except through coinage and the occasional inscription. The coins are an antidote to a widespread fault in modern approaches: the idea, from hindsight, that the Roman Republic was doomed, that the rise of Octavian-Augustus to monarchy was inevitable, and that contemporaries might have sensed as much. Ancient works in other genres skilfully encouraged such hindsight. Augustus in the Res Gestae, and Virgil in Georgics and Aeneid, sought to flatten the history of the period, and largely to efface Octavian's defeated rivals. But the latter's coins in precious metal were not easily recovered and suppressed by Authority. They remain for scholars to revalue. In our own age, when public untruthfulness about history is increasingly accepted - or challenged, we may value anew the discipline of searching for other, ancient, voices which ruling discourse has not quite managed to silence. In this book eleven new essays explore the coinage of Rome's competing dynasts. Julius Caesar's coins, and those of his `son' Octavian-Augustus, are studied. But similar and respectful attention is given to the issues of their opponents: Cato the Younger and Q. Metellus Scipio, Mark Antony and Sextus Pompeius, Q. Cornificius and others. A shared aim is to understand mentalities, the forecasts current, in an age of rare insecurity as the superpower of the Mediterranean faced, and slowly recovered from, division and ruin.
From Caesar to Augustus (c. 49 BC–AD 14)
From Caesar to Augustus (c. 49 BC–AD 14) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Caesar to Augustus (c. 49 BC–AD 14) write by Clare Rowan. This book was released on 2019. From Caesar to Augustus (c. 49 BC–AD 14) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A richly illustrated introduction to the contribution of Roman and provincial coinage to the history of this period, aimed at undergraduates.
New Perspectives on the Roman Civil Wars of 49–30 BCE
New Perspectives on the Roman Civil Wars of 49–30 BCE - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Perspectives on the Roman Civil Wars of 49–30 BCE write by Richard Westall. This book was released on 2024-01-25. New Perspectives on the Roman Civil Wars of 49–30 BCE available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offering new and original approaches to the Roman civil wars of 49-30 BCE, the eleven papers presented here for the first time shed light on this crucial moment in the forging of Roman identity. They engage with a variety of problems and topics in political discourse (diplomacy, the concept of libertas, divine paternity); socio-economic structures (allied rulers, military officials, civil war finances, Agrippa's family); material culture (the coinage of Julius Caesar, the physical remains of Corfinium); and literary commemoration (Sallust on trauma, the lost Histories of Asinius Pollio). The case studies presented here contribute to our understanding of a period that is just as fundamental for our view of the Romans as it was to the Romans themselves. Arguing for the unity of the period in question, the volume deploys a multiplicity of methodologies to analyse how the trauma of armed conflict and the breakdown of accepted socio-cultural models not only mediated the contemporary experience of Roman civil war, but also left a lasting impression upon how Romans viewed the world. Incisive and critical, these contributions by a diverse team of international researchers, both emerging scholars and leaders in their fields, offer a new window into the world of the late Republic and early Principate.
Empire of Images
Empire of Images - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empire of Images write by Alyson Roy. This book was released on 2024-04-01. Empire of Images available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rome was an empire of images, especially images that bolstered their imperial identity. Visual and material items portraying battles, myths, captives, trophies, and triumphal parades were particularly important across the Roman empire. But where did these images originate and what shaped them? Empire of Images explores the development of the Roman visual language of power in the Republic in Iberian Peninsula, the Gallic provinces, and Greece and Macedonia, centering the development of imperial imagery in overseas conquest. Drawing on a range of material evidence, this book argues that Roman imperial imagery developed through prolonged interaction with and adaptation by subjugated peoples. Despite their starring role in Roman imagery, the populations of Rome’s provinces continuously reinterpreted and reimagined Roman images of power to navigate their membership in the new imperial community, and in doing so, contributed to the creation of a universal visual language that continues to shape how Rome is understood.
The triumviral period: civil war, political crisis and socioeconomic transformations
The triumviral period: civil war, political crisis and socioeconomic transformations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The triumviral period: civil war, political crisis and socioeconomic transformations write by Pina Polo, Francisco. This book was released on 2020-07-08. The triumviral period: civil war, political crisis and socioeconomic transformations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nothing from the subsequent Augustan age can be fully explained without understanding the previous Triumviral period (43-31 BC). In this book, twenty experts from nine different countries and nineteen universities examine the Triumviral age not merely as a phase of transition to the Principate but as a proper period with its own dynamics and issues, which were a consequence of the previous years. The volume aims to address a series of underlying structural problems that emerged in that time, such as the legal nature of power attributed to the Triumvirs; changes and continuity in Republican institutions, both in Rome and the provinces of the Empire; the development of the very concept of civil war; the strategies of political communication and propaganda in order to win over public opinion; economic consequences for Rome and Italy, whether caused by the damage from constant wars or, alternatively, resulting from the proscriptions and confiscations carried out by the Triumvirs; and the transformation of Roman-Italian society. All these studies provide a complete, fresh and innovative picture of a key period that signaled the end of the Roman Republic.
