The World of Rome: An Introduction to Roman CultureThe World of Rome is an introduction to the history and culture of Rome for students at university and at school as well as for anyone seriously interested in the ancient world. It covers all aspects of the city SH its rise to power, what made it great and why it still engages and challenges us today. Frequent quotations from ancient writers and numerous illustrations make this a stimulating and accessible introduction to ancient Rome. The book is particularly designed to serve as a background to Reading Latin (CUP 1986). |
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Table des matières
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| 49 | |
Princeps and imperator | 83 |
Governing Rome | 112 |
The life of the city | 140 |
Production and consumption | 181 |
The Roman family | 208 |
The Roman mind | 235 |
Roman emperors | 328 |
Latin and Greek writers | 331 |
Crossreferences with the text of Reading Latin | 347 |
Acknowledgements for illustrations | 353 |
Index and glossary of Latin terms | 358 |
General index | 366 |
Topographical index | 382 |
Index of personal names | 387 |
Roman literature | 262 |
Roman art and architecture | 287 |
The ghosts of Rome | 317 |
Index of passages | 395 |
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The World of Rome: An Introduction to Roman Culture Peter V. Jones,Keith C. Sidwell Aucun aperçu disponible - 1997 |
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aediles Aeneas Aeneid agricultural ancient architecture aristocratic army assemblies atrium Augustus became campaign Cato Catullus censors centuriae Cicero city of Rome Claudius comitia command concilium plebis consuls consulship cult defeated early elected elite emperor example father Forum friends Gaius Gaul gods governor Greek Hellenistic honour Horace imperial imperium important inscription Italian Italy Julius Caesar Jupiter kings land late Republic later Latin Letters literature magistracies magistrates Marcus Marius Mark Antony Mediterranean military Nero Octavian patron period plebeian plebs Pliny Pliny the Younger poem poet poetry political Polybius Pompey portraits praetors prouincia provinces quaestors reign Republican rhetoric Roman citizens Roman empire Roman family Roman Law Roman world Rome Rome's Romulus Scipio second century BC Senate slaves Spain status style Suetonius survive Tacitus temple Tiberius tion tradition Trajan tribunes triumph Vespasian Virgil vote wife writer wrote
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Page 279 - Furi, qui me ex versiculis meis putastis, quod sunt molliculi, parum pudicum. nam castum esse decet pium poetam ipsum, versiculos nihil necesse est; qui tunc denique habent salem ac leporem, si sunt molliculi ac parum pudici et quod pruriat incitare possunt, non dico pueris, sed his pilosis, qui duros nequeunt movere lumbos. vos, quod milia multa basiorum legistis, male me marem putatis? pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo.
Page 279 - Pedicabo ego uos et irrumabo, Aureli pathice et cinaede Furi, qui me ex uersiculis meis putastis, quod sunt molliculi, parum pudicum. nam castum esse decet pium poetam...
Page 253 - Have I of all mortals found favour with Heaven and been chosen to serve on earth as vicar of the gods ? I am the arbiter of life and death for the nations ; it rests in my power what each man's lot and state shall be...
Page 53 - ... found Rome a city of brick, and left it a city of marble.
Page 239 - Nearly all our older poetry was written and read by men to whom the distinction between poetry and rhetoric, in its modern form, would have been meaningless. The 'beauties' which they chiefly regarded in every composition were those which we either dislike or simply do not notice. This change of taste makes an invisible wall between us and them.
Page 2 - The end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age were of great importance in our prehistory.
Page 47 - Then prostrating yourself at his feet, he not only did not raise you up, but, dragged along and abused as though a common slave, your body all covered with bruises, yet with unflinching steadfastness of purpose, you recalled to him Caesar's edict [of pardon] and the letter of felicitation on my return, that accompanied it.
Page 1 - Can you legally flog a man who is a Roman citizen, and moreover has not been found guilty? ' When the centurion »6 heard this, he went and reported it to the commandant. 'What do you mean to do?' he said. 'This man is a Roman citizen.
Page 24 - Carthage must be destroyed," to urge Rome on to the second Punic war. Of Greek physicians he says among other things: "They (the Greeks] are a most iniquitous and intractable race, and you may take my word as the word of a prophet when I tell you, that whenever that nation shall bestow its literature upon Rome it will mar everything; and that all the sooner if it sends its physicians among us. They have conspired among themselves to murder all barbarians with their medicine.
Page 24 - Ilium, once a prosperous city, to the empires of Assyria, Media, and Persia, the greatest of their time, and to Macedonia itself, the brilliance of which was so recent, either deliberately or the verses escaping him, he said : A day will come when sacred Troy shall perish, And Priam and his people shall be slain.

