• Introduction--
• 1. Rome in the eighteenth century--
• 2. French intervention and papal reaction--
• 3. Archaeology and urbanism in the waning days of papal Rome--
• 4. Archaeology and urbanism in Rome during the early decades of the national state--
• 5. Development and archaeology in Roma Capitale--
• 6. Museums, markets, and display in the New Rome--
• 7. Archaeology and urbanism in fascist Rome--
• 8. Mostras and museums in fascist Rome--
• 9. Quietism, conformity and chaos: urbanism and archaeology in the 1950s and 1960s--
• 10. A new generation, a new politics, and a new archaeology--
• 11. The end of an era: the Giubileo, the Ara Pacis, and the twilight of the heirs of Bianchi Bandinelli--
• 12. Afterword-- Bibliography.
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Rome is one of the world's greatest archaeological sites, preserving many major monuments of the classical past. It is also a city with an important post-Roman history and home to both the papacy and the modern Italian state. Archaeologists have studied the ruins, and popes and politicians have used them for propaganda programs. Developers and preservationists have fought over what should and should not be preserved. This book tells the story of those complex, interacting developments over the past three centuries, from the days of the Grand Tour through the arrival of the fascists, which saw more destruction but also an unprecedented use of the remains for political propaganda. In post-war Rome, urban development predominated over archaeological preservation and much was lost. However, starting in the 1970s, preservationists have fought back, saving much and making the city into Europe's most important case study in historical preservation and historical loss.
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• Le corps du magistrat
• Pas de magistrats sans appariteurs
• Un groupe qui fait corps
• Tâches et fonctions
• Les licteurs
• Les viatores
• Les accensi
• Les hérauts ou praecones
• Les scribes
• Le système des décuries
• Les données de l'épigraphie juridique
• La répartition par fonctions et par magistratures
• Une constitution en ordres
• Les procédures de recrutement et d'emploi : le cas des scribes et des librarii questoriens
• Les décuries, cadres de l'intégration
• Des décuries aux ordines
• Origines et positions sociales
• Les conditions du recrutement
• Quelles origines ? Quels statuts ?
• Un milieu diversifié dans une identité commune
• App. : Changements et associations de fonctions
• Changements de magistrature dans la même fonction
• Du service de la cité à celui de son aristocratie
• Sous la République et au début de l'Empire, les formes traditionnelles de l'inégalité civique
• Au sein de la cohorte : l'exemple des agents de Verrès
• Collaborations et dépendances
• Administrateurs ou courtisans ?
• Accensi, licteurs et viatores
• Les accensi
• Licteurs et viatores
• Les praecones : une position particulière
• Les effets de la fonction
• Les rôles de l'emploi
• L'indignité de droit et de fait
• Les scribes
• Les scribes de la Rome républicaine
• À la fin de la République et au début de l'Empire, l'accès à l'ordre équestre
• L'institutionnalisation des positions
• L'image de l'honneur
• Les appariteurs, témoins de l'Histoire de Rome
• Appendice : appariteurs connus par l'épigraphie.

"A Rome, sous la République et au début de l'Empire, un magistrat ne pouvait pas exercer ses responsabilités sans ses appariteurs. Ils étaient sa voix (hérauts ou praecones), ses huissiers (viatores), ses gardes du corps (licteurs), ses mains et sa mémoire (scribes). Ils entouraient le magistrat et effectuaient les multiples tâches qu'exigeait l'exercice du pouvoir. Ils étaient des hommes libres et des citoyens, au service de la cité qui les rémunérait et les mettait à la disposition des magistrats le temps de leurs fonctions. La plupart d'entre eux étaient ainsi inscrits dans des cadres officiels, des décuries, d'où chaque année était choisi le personnel nécessaire. Ils y gagnaient la reconnaissance d'une compétence et d'une certaine indépendance, d'une dignitas qui leur valait de se constituer en ordres. Toutefois, les membres de l'aristocratie sénatoriale qui devaient pouvoir compter sur leur fidélité et leur dévouement veillaient à faire recruter leurs dépendants, souvent leurs affranchis. Ainsi, la position qu'ils occupaient avait-elle quelque chose d'étrange : au service à la fois, public, de la cité et, privé, de ses gouvernants. L'étude de ces hommes se révèle alors décisive pour la compréhension de l'évolution de l'organisation civique romaine qui, par un processus de privatisation des instances publiques, conduisit à l'Empire."--Page 4 of cover.

• Notes on Contributors The Historiography of Rome and Its Empire Series Carsten Hjort Lange & Jesper Majbom Madsen Introduction Christopher Burden-Strevens
• Part 1 The Text
• 1 La fiabilite de Zonaras dans les deux premieres decades de l'Histoire Romaine de Cassius Dion: le cas des discours Valerie Fromentin
• 2 Cassio Dione e le fonti pre- liviane: una versione alternativa dei primi secoli di Roma Gianpaolo Urso
• 3 The Regal Period in the Excerpta Constantiniana and in Some Early Byzantine Extracts from Dio's Roman History C.T. Mallan
• Part 2 Military & Political History
• 4 From Nobles to Villains: The Story of the Republican Senate in Cassius Dio's Roman History Jesper Majbom Madsen
• 5 The `Great Men' of the Middle Republic in Cassius Dio's Roman History Marianne Coudry
• 6 Cassius Dio on Violence, Stasis, and Civil War: The Early Years Carsten Hjort Lange
• 7 Breaking the Idealistic Paradigm: Competition in Dio's Earlier Republic Mads Lindholmer
• Part 3 Early Rome & Dio's Project
• 8 Speech in Cassius Dio's Roman History, Books 1-35 John Rich
• 9 Cultural Interactions and Identities in Cassius Dio's Early Books Brandon Jones
• 10 Defining the Good Ruler: Early Kings as Proto-Imperial Figures in Cassius Dio Verena Schulz Index.
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In a radical change of approach, Cassius Dio's Forgotten History of Early Rome illuminates the least explored and understood part of Cassius Dio's enormous Roman History: the first two decads, which span over half a millennium of history and constitute a quarter of Dio's work. Combining literary and historiographical perspectives with source-criticism and textual analysis for the first time in the study of Dio's early books, this collection of chapters demonstrates the integral place of `early Rome' within the text as a whole and Dio's distinctive approach to this semi-mythical period. By focussing on these hitherto neglected portions of the text, this volume seeks to further the ongoing reappraisal of one of Rome's most significant but traditionally under-appreciated historians.
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• Claude dans la dynastie des julio-claudiens
• La famille
• Le hasard d'une naissance : Claude à Lyon, 10 avant J.-C.
• Lugdunum à la naissance de Claude Armand Desbat et Hugues Savay-Guerraz
• Messaline
• Agrippine la Jeune
• Les premières années
• Le rôle des prétoriens dans l'ascension au pouvoir de Claude
• Claude et les Étrusques
• Les lettres claudiennes
• Les portraits de Claude
• L'image de Claude et de sa famille dans les camées
• La politique et le gouvernement de Claude
• La politique et le gouvernement de Claude
• Claude, censeur en 48
• Valerius Asiaticus
• Les initiatives religieuses de l'empereur Claude
• Les "faux" Jeux Séculaires de Claude Bârbel Schnegg-Kôhler
• Le Sebasteion d'Aphrodisias
• L'urbanisme et les constructions claudiennes dans la ville de Rome
• L'arc édifié en l'honneur de l'empereur Claude sur le Champ de Mars
• L'Aqua Claudia
• Ostie et son port
• La Table claudienne (cat. 98)
• Les provinces
• Carte de l'Empire romain sous Claude (41-54)
• L'empire à l'avènement de Claude et la politique de conquêtes
• La Bretagne au Ier siècle
• Gesoriacum / Bononia
• Claude et la province du Norique
• La provincialisation de la Lycie
• La provincialisation de la Maurétanie sous le règne de Claude
• Caesarea Mauretaniae
• La Thrace
• Claude et l'Égypte
• La province de Narbonnaise sous le principat de Claude
• Claude et la Gaule Chevelue
• Les Alpes sous le règne de Claude
• Cités, municipes et colonies sous le principat de Claude : fondations et promotions
• Baelo Claudia
• La création de la Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensiurn
• La cité de Claudiopolis
• Colonia Claudia Savaria
• Claudia Apamea et la restauration des villes de Syrie et de Palestine après les séismes
• L'armée : les légions et les troupes auxiliaires sous le règne de Claude
• Les frontières militaires de l'Empire sous Claude
• Le monnayage de Claude
• Divus claudius
• Complot, assassinat, avènement de Néron et honneurs posthumes
• La consommation de champignons dans la cuisine de l'Antiquité
• Le temple du Divus Claudius
• Claude au cinéma, à la télévision et en bande dessinée : l'anti-empereur.

• A Note on Transliteration and Translation Introduction Plato and Syracuse Plato in Syracuse Archimedes in Syracuse Caravaggio in Syracuse Notes Index.
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Focusing on the figures of Plato, Archimedes, and Caravaggio, The Divine Spark of Syracuse discloses the role that Syracuse, a Greek cultural outpost in Sicily, played in fueling creative energies. Among the topics this book explores are Plato and the allegory of the cave, and the divine spark mentioned in his Seventh Letter. It also considers the machines of Archimedes, including his famous screw, and the variety of siege and antisiege weapons that he developed in the defense of his hometown during the sieges of the First and Second Punic Wars, including "the hand" (a giant claw), the "burning mirror, " and the catapult. The final chapter offers a look at the sixteenth-century artist and roustabout Caravaggio. On the run after yet another street brawl, Caravaggio traveled to Syracuse, where he painted The Burial of St. Lucy (Santa Lucia) in 1608. Typical of his late works, the painting is notable for its subdued tones and emotional and psychological delicacy, even fragility. This captivating book lends clear insight into the links between the sense of place and inspiration in philosophy, mathematics, and art. Rowland is the most learned tour guide we could ask for.
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• Acknowledgements Figures Table of the Medici Dynasty
• Introduction and Global Perspective of Animal Collecting and Menageries
• Part 1: Cultural Uses of Animals at the Medici Court 1Zoological Collecting at the Medici Court: Practices of Exchange and Processes of Procurement 2Menageries and aviaries in Medicean Florence 3The Sport of the Chase: "Exotic Hunts" at the Medici Court 4Spectacles of Slaughter and Courtly Pageants: Exotic Beasts as Symbols of Power and Colonial Ambitions
• Part 2: Exotic Animals in the Art of the Medici Court 5Animal Imagery in the service of Political Imaging 6Medici Patronage and Early Modern Naturalism: Tensions between Scientific and Decorative Naturalism 7The Ambrogiana Series of Animal Paintings Conclusion
• Appendices 1Medici Archive Project Database of Documents Relating to "exotic and unusual" Animals 2Transcribed Extract from Vincenzio Follini and Modesto Rastrelli, Firenze antica e moderna illustrata-Describing the Serraglio de leoni near San Marco, in Florence 3Transcribed Extract from Cesare Agolanti's La Descrizione di Pratolino del Ser.mo Gran Duca di Toscana Poeticamente Descritto da M. Cesare Agolanti Fiorentino 4Transcribed extract from Gateano Cambiagi's Descrizione dell' Imperiale Giardino di Boboli-Describing the Serraglio degli animali rari
• Bibliography.
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The book examines the roles that rare and exotic animals played in the cultural self-fashioning and the political imaging of the Medici court during the family's reign, first as Dukes of Florence (1532-1569) and subsequently as Grand Dukes of Tuscany (1569-1737). The book opens with an examination of global practices in zoological collecting and cultural uses of animals. The Medici's activities as collectors of exotic species, the menageries they established and their deployment of animals in the ceremonial life of the court and in their art are examined in relation to this wider global perspective. The book seeks to nuance the myth promoted by the Medici themselves that theirs was the most successful princely serraglio in early modern Europe.
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• The Italian Peninsula in the late eighteenth century
• Birth of a national idea: 1796-1850
• A perfect storm: Italian unification, 1850-1871
• The creation of the liberal state: 1871-1887
• Liberal Italy under siege: 1887-1900
• Liberal Italy's golden age: 1901-1914
• The Great War and the crisis of liberal Italy, 1914-1920
• The rise and triumph of fascism: 1921-1925
• Forging the fascist totalitarian regime: 1925-1935
• Fascism on the war path: 1934-1940
• From fascist dictatorship to democratic republic: 1940-1948
• Italy transformed: 1948-1970
• Italy adrift: 1972-1991
• An elusive transition: Italy since 1992.

• Introduction: charting the history of the equestrian order-- Part I. The Republic:
• 1. Riding for Rome--
• 2. Cicero's equestrian order--
• 3. Questions of status-- Part II. The Empire:
• 4. Pathways to the principate--
• 5. An imperial order--
• 6. Cursus and vita (I): officers--
• 7. Cursus and vita (II): administrators-- Part III. Equestrians on Display:
• 8. Ceremonies and consensus--
• 9. Spectators and performers--
• 10. Religion and the Res Publica-- Part IV. The Late Empire:
• 11. Governors and generals--
• 12. The last equites Romani-- Conclusion.
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In the Roman social hierarchy, the equestrian order stood second only to the senatorial aristocracy in status and prestige. Throughout more than a thousand years of Roman history, equestrians played prominent roles in the Roman government, army, and society as cavalrymen, officers, businessmen, tax collectors, jurors, administrators, and writers. This book offers the first comprehensive history of the equestrian order, covering the period from the eighth century BC to the fifth century AD. It examines how Rome's cavalry became the equestrian order during the Republican period, before analysing how imperial rule transformed the role of equestrians in government. Using literary and documentary evidence, the book demonstrates the vital social function which the equestrian order filled in the Roman world, and how this was shaped by the transformation of the Roman state itself.
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• List of illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• List of abbreviations
• List of Maps
• Chronology
• 1 Opinion and Source
• 2 The Stage is Set
• 3 A Child of Two Courts
• 4 Young Lion of the West
• 5 Crisis in North Africa
• 6 Restoration and Manipulation
• 7 Pro Patria
• 8 The Emperor and his Church
• 9 A Kind of Peace
• Glossary of ancient terms
• General bibliography
• Index.
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Honorius explores the personal life and tumultuous times of one of the last emperors of the Roman West. From his accession to the throne aged ten to his death at thirty-eight, Honorius' reign was blighted by a myriad of crises: military rebellions, political conspiracies, barbarian invasions, and sectarian controversies. The notorious sack of the city of Rome occurred on Honorius' watch, and much of the western empire was given over to anarchy and violence. This book should interest undergraduates, research students, and professional scholars. Given the enduring appeal of the fall of Rome and the collapse of western Roman civilization, the wider public should also find much of interest.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781138190887 20181119

This book tells the remarkable story of Palazzo Rucellai from behind its celebrated facade. The house, beginning with its piecemeal assemblage by one of the richest men in Florence in the fifteenth century, has witnessed endless drama, from the butchering of its interior to a courtyard suicide to champagne-fueled orgies on the eve of World War I to a recent murder on its third floor. When the author, an art historian, serendipitously discovers a room for let in the house, she lands in the vortex of history and is tested at every turn-inside the house and out. Her residency in Palazzo Rucellai is informed as much by the sense of desire giving way to disappointment as by a sense of denial that soon enough must succumb to truth. House of Secrets is about the sharing of space, the tracing of footsteps, the overlapping of lives. It is about the willingness to lose oneself behind the facade, to live between past and present, to slip between the cracks of history and the crevices of our own imagination.
(source: Nielsen Book Data) 9781788313605 20190401