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• Un tyran et un anti-modèle
• Suétone : un témoignage biographique essentiel
• L'apport limité des historiens antiques
• Flavius Josèphe, Sénèque et Pline l'ancien
• Les documents matériels
• La jeunesse de Caligula
• Une lignée prestigieuse : la maison d'auguste.
• Un descendant d'auguste et de césar
• Le fils de germanicus
• Une petite enfance sur les routes de l'empire.
• Les mutineries des armées du Rhin
• Le voyage en orient
• La mort de germanicus
• Le procès de pison
• Tensions et disgrâces dans la maison d'auguste
• Caligula épargné
• La succession de tibère
• Trajectoire d'un prince en monstre
• La désignation de caligula
• Le meilleur candidat a l'empire
• L'accueil de l'avènement de caligula
• L'imperium
• La popularité de caligula
• Détente politique et fidélité familiale
• Hommages a la maison d'augus
• Du père de la patrie au tyran
• Caligula est-il devenu fou?
• Conspiration et répression
• Rupture avec la haute aristocratie
• Conspiration dans le cercle familial
• La démesure opposée au modèle augustéen
• Condamnation du comportement sexuel de caligula
• Un goût immodéré pour les spectacles
• La cruauté de caligula
• La monarchie totale selon Caligula
• Les auteurs antiques liés à l'aristocratie romaine
• Le principat d'auguste
• Caligula, un monarque assumé
• L'histoire d'incitatus : conflits entre caligula et les sénateurs
• Rupture avec l'attitude religieuse de ses prédécesseurs
• A la cour de césar
• La colline du palatin, quartier impérial
• La diminution du poids du sénat et les hommes nouveaux de caligula
• Les excès de la vie de cour
• La rupture avec le triomphe
• La politique de caligula en orient
• La politique de caligula vis-à-vis de la maurétanie
• L'imperator
• Soigner sa popularité
• Favoriser le peuple contre l'aristocratie sénatoriale
• La tradition du voyage impérial
• La mécanique du tyrannicide
• Le premier empereur romain assassiné
• Les auteurs de la conspiration
• Légitimer le tyrannicide contre la légitimité de l'empereur
• L'origine militaire du complot
• L'encadrement de la garde impériale
• Les pratiques humiliantes de caligula
• Chaerea et ses complices
• La scène du crime
• L'exclusion de caligula de la maison d'auguste
• La réaction des gardes du corps germains
• Le sort des tyrannicides
• Le retour aux libertés des aristocrates ?
• L'échec des ambitions du sénat
• Claude, une solution a la vacance du pouvoir
• Parenthèse ou continuum de l'histoire
• Julio-claudienne ?
• Un cas d'école pour l'historien
• Chronologie
• Bibliographie.

"Peut-on présenter la vie de Caligula en tenant la légende noire à distance ? L'image du troisième empereur romain, qui régna après Auguste et Tibère, est déterminée par le sombre portrait de tyran psychopathe et fantasque qu'en fit Suétone, au siècle suivant. Mais à se faire uniquement l'écho des écrivains antiques, le risque est de répéter une construction intellectuelle en partie indépendante des faits. Nicolas Tran mène une enquête politique vivante et documentée sur ce personnage fascinant de l'histoire romaine. Le jeune Caligula fut modelé par son appartenance à la Maison d'Auguste, une famille érigée en structure de gouvernement et traversée par de violentes intrigues. S'il s'acquitta de son rôle d'empereur avec application, il imposa aussi un style qui foulait aux pieds les intérêts de l'aristocratie. Or le prince n'était légitime que s'il exerçait le pouvoir avec mesure et en respectant les traditions. Les officiers qui l'assassinèrent se représentaient comme le bras armé des citoyens."--Page 4 of cover.

• 1: Introduction: contexts
• 2: Liberty, equality, and popular sovereignty
• 3: Government
• 4: Cosmopolitanism, imperialism, and the idea of law
• 5: Republican virtues
• 6: Republican decision-making
• 7: Epilogue: philosophical debate and normative theory Bibliography Index of passages General index.
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This book offers an innovative analytic account of Cicero's treatment of key political ideas: liberty and equality, government, law, cosmopolitanism and imperialism, republican virtues, and ethical decision-making in politics. Cicero (106-43 BC) is well known as a major player in the turbulent politics of the last three decades of the Roman Republic. But he was a political thinker, too, influential for many centuries in the Western intellectual and cultural tradition. His theoretical writings stand as the first surviving attempt to articulate a philosophical rationale for republicanism. They were not written in isolation either from the stances he took in his political actions and political oratory of the period, or from his discussions of immediate political issues or questions of character or behaviour in his voluminous correspondence with friends and acquaintances. In this book, Malcolm Schofield situates the intimate interrelationships between Cicero's writings in all these modes within the historical context of a fracturing Roman political order. It exhibits the continuing attractions of Cicero's scheme of republican values, as well as some of its limitations as a response to the crisis that was engulfing Rome.
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• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Introduction by Aaron W. Irvin 1
• 1. The Beauty of the Oikumene Has Two Edges: Nurturing Roman Imperialism in the "Glocalizing" Traditions of the East by Ljuben Tevdovski
• 2. Triggered identity: the use of Macedonian ethnicity by Blaundos in confrontation with the Roman Empire by Luca Mazzini
• 3. The population of Siscia in the light of epigraphy by Ivan Radman-Livaja
• 4. Roman presence in Athens in light of the epigraphic evidence evidence by Aleksandar Simic
• 5. Global and Local in the Sanctuary of the Egyptian Gods in Marathon: the construction of a Cultural Identity in Roman Greece by Dafni Maikidou-Poutrino
• 6. Consciousness of Connectivity: Roman temples in southern Syria by Francesca Mazzilli
• 7. Macedonian, Greek, or Egyptian? Navigating the Royal Additive Identities of Ptolemy I Soter and Ptolemy II Philadelphus by Rachel J. Mittelman
• 8. Being Mithraist: Embracing 'Otherness' in the Roman Cultural Milieu by Nina Mazhjoo
• 9. "There are always two sides to every story": Roman rule, cultural continuities and ethnic identity in southern Hispania by Francisco Machuca Prieto
• 10. Unlocking ritual performances in the Romano-British countryside: How small finds and structured deposits enrich our understanding of provincial priesthoods by Alessandra Esposito
• 11. Purification Through Puppies: Dog Symbolism and Sacrifice in the Mediterranean World by Aaron W. Irvin and Jason Lundock
• 12. Communities at the Edges of the Roman World: The Perception of Identity in the Roman Iron Age Barbaricum by Kala Drewniak
• 13. Deconstructing "Balkan Latin" by Dragana Kun?er
• 14. The importance of being earnest: Why precise language matters by Kaja Stemberger Flegar
• 15. The dictatorship of identity: Soviet scholarship and Roman imperialism by Anton Baryshnikov.
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A timely and academically-significant contribution to scholarship on community, identity, and globalization in the Roman and Hellenistic worlds Community and Identity at the Edges of the Classical World examines the construction of personal and communal identities in the ancient world, exploring how globalism, multi-culturalism, and other macro events influenced micro identities throughout the Hellenistic and Roman empires. This innovative volume discusses where contact and the sharing of ideas was occurring in the time period, and applies modern theories based on networks and communication to historical and archaeological data. A new generation of international scholars challenge traditional views of Classical history and offer original perspectives on the impact globalizing trends had on localized areas-insights that resonate with similar issues today. This singular resource presents a broad, multi-national view rarely found in western collected volumes, including Serbian, Macedonian, and Russian scholarship on the Roman Empire, as well as on Roman and Hellenistic archaeological sites in Eastern Europe. Topics include Egyptian identity in the Hellenistic world, cultural identity in Roman Greece, Romanization in Slovenia, Balkan Latin, the provincial organization of cults in Roman Britain, and Soviet studies of Roman Empire and imperialism. Serving as a synthesis of contemporary scholarship on the wider topic of identity and community, this volume: Provides an expansive materialist approach to the topic of globalization in the Roman world Examines ethnicity in the Roman empire from the viewpoint of minority populations Offers several views of metascholarship, a growing sub-discipline that compares ancient material to modern scholarship Covers a range of themes, time periods, and geographic areas not included in most western publications Community and Identity at the Edges of the Classical World is a valuable resource for academics, researchers, and graduate students examining identity and ethnicity in the ancient world, as well as for those working in multiple fields of study, from Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman historians, to the study of ethnicity, identity, and globalizing trends in time. .
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• Emperors and tyrants in the fourth century : outlining a new portrait of the ruler and of his role through images and words / Ignazio Tantillo
• Constantine's Arch: a reassessment in the light of textual and material evidence / Diederik Burgersdijk
• Purple and the depiction of Constantine in Eusebius and other contemporaneous Panegyrical works / José B. Torres
• The Caesars: a myth on Julian's emperorship / María Pilar García Ruiz
• Cosmic warnings and imperial responses: Ammianus' astronomical excursuses / Álvaro Sánchez-Ostiz
• Between expressionism and classicism: stylistic choices as means of legitimisation in late fourth-century imperial portraits / Fabio Guidetti
• The letter from Magnus Maximus to Valentinian II (CA 39): two imperial images in conflict / María Victoria Escribano
• Toying with Theodosius: the manipulation of the imperial image in the sources of the riot of the statues / Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas
• Managing the empire while securing the throne: Theodosius I and the administrative structures of his empire / Daniëlle Slootjes.

"What are the interrelationships between the language of rhetoric and the code of imperial images, from Constantine to Theodosius? How are imperial images shaped by the fact that they were produced and promoted at the behest of the emperor? Nine contributors from Spain, Italy, the U.K. and the Netherlands will guide the reader about these issues by analyzing how imperial power was articulated and manipulated by means of literary strategies and iconographic programmes. The authors scrutinize representations from Constantine to Julian and from the Valentinians to Theodosius by considering material culture and texts as interconnected sources that engaged with and reacted to each other"-- Provided by publisher.

• Volume
• 1. A history
• volume
• 2. Select anthology.

"Flamininus' proclamation, made on behalf of himself and the Roman senate, is a classic example of the uses of history in the service of politics. In declaring the end of Macedonian tyranny, it echoed the great debates that we know from fourth-century Athens, as Demosthenes warned of the dangers to freedom presented by the rise of the first great Macedonian king, Philip I. Those events were not so very far distant (150 years is not much in the longue durée of history), but in the meantime the reign of Philip's son Alexander had changed beyond recognition the shape of east Mediterranean politics. Whether or not they realized or wanted it, the Romans were themselves the heirs of Macedon"-- Provided by publisher.

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Supply Chain Management
• 3. The Model - Products, Area of Supply, Population, and Diet
• 4. The Products
• 5. Technology Development
• 6. Losses in the Supply Chain
• 7. Supply System Analysis - Core Inputs
• 8. Supply System Analysis - Infrastructure
• 9. Supply System - Operational Strategy
• 10. Conclusions.
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This book defines the processes used for delivering a range of food items to the city of Rome and its hinterland from the first century AD using modern supply chain modelling techniques. The subject matter delves into the wider supply of goods, such as wood and building products, to add further perspective to the breadth of the system managed by the Roman administration to ensure supply and political stability. It assesses the impact of strategic changes such as the introduction of water-powered milling technology and restructuring of the annona in this period, as well as administrative reforms. Evidence from ancient sources, both literary and epigraphic, along with relevant archaeological comparative evidence is used to develop a detailed supply model, including the mapping of warehouse management systems; port and river traffic co-ordination; quality control mechanisms and administrative structures. Unlike other contemporary studies, this model takes into consideration supply chain losses to correct the erroneous assumption that supply is equal to consumption. A product flow map from the source of supply to the consumer details the labour, equipment and infrastructure required at each stage, painting a graphic picture of just what an achievement it was for the administration to have maintained such a complex system over this long time period. Food Provisions for Ancient Rome provides an in depth exploration of this topic that will be of interest to anyone working on the city of Rome under the empire, as well as those interested in imperial administration and logistics.
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• Parrhesia, frankness, and post-classical politics
• Speaking freely
• Kings: frankness to power
• Demos: rhetoric in the post-classical city
• Elites: hierarchy, oligarchy, and friendship
• Authorizing frankness: Lucian's satire
• Conclusion.
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Frankness, Greek Culture, and the Roman Empire discusses the significance of parrhesia (free and frank speech) in Greek culture of the Roman empire. The term parrhesia first emerged in the context of the classical Athenian democracy and was long considered a key democratic and egalitarian value. And yet, references to frank speech pervade the literature of the Roman empire, a time when a single autocrat ruled over most of the known world, Greek cities were governed at the local level by entrenched oligarchies, and social hierarchy was becoming increasingly stratified. This volume challenges the traditional view that the meaning of the term changed radically after Alexander the Great, and shows rather that parrhesia retained both political and ethical significance well into the Roman empire. By examining references to frankness in political writings, rhetoric, philosophy, historiography, biographical literature, and finally satire, the volume also explores the dynamics of political power in the Roman empire, where politics was located in interpersonal relationships as much as, if not more than, in institutions. The contested nature of the power relations in such interactions - between emperors and their advisors, between orators and the cities they counseled, and among fellow members of the oligarchic elite in provincial cities - reveals the political implications of a prominent post-classical intellectual development that reconceptualizes true freedom as belonging to the man who behaves - and speaks - freely. At the same time, because the role of frank speaker is valorized, those who claim it also lay themselves open to suspicions of self-promotion and hypocrisy. This volume will be of interest to students and scholars of rhetoric and political thought in the ancient world, and to anyone interested in ongoing debates about intellectual freedom, limits on speech, and the advantages of presenting oneself as a truth-teller.
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• Introduction: The Ancient Military Treatise, Genre, and History James T. Chlup and Conor Whately
• 1. Military Manuals from Aeneas Tacticus to Maurice: Origins, Scholarship, Genre, Audience, and History Conor Whately
• 2. The Limited Source Value of Works of Military Literature Hans Michael Schellenberg
• 3. The Blind Leading the Blind? Civilian Writers and Audiences of Military Manuals in the Roman World Nadya Williams
• 4. Homeric Taktika Nicholas Sekunda
• 5. Aeneas Tacticus, Philon of Byzantium, Onasander and the Good Siege: A Case-Study of Demetrius at Rhodes Graham Wrightson
• 6. Mercenaries and Moral Concerns Aaron L. Beek
• 7. Xenophon's On Horsemanship: the Equestrian Military Manual Lucy Felmingham-Cockburn
• 8. Refighting Cunaxa: Xenophon's Education of Cyrus as a Manual on Military Leadership Jeffrey Rop
• 9. The Lost Tactica of Lucius Papirius Paetus Murray Dahm
• 10. Defeat as Stratagem: Frontinus on Cannae James T. Chlup
• 11. Vegetius' Regulae bellorum generales Jonathan Warner
• 12. Vegetius' Naval Appendix and the Battle of the Hellespont (324 CE) Craig H. Caldwell
• 13. Justinian's Warfare as Role Model for Byzantine Warfare? The Evidence of the Military Manuals Clemens Koehn
• 14. 'God has sent the thunder': Ideological Distinctives of Middle Byzantine Military Manuals Meredith L. D. Riedel
• Epilogue: Is War an Art? The Past, Present, and Future of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Military Literature Immacolata Eramo.
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This volume explores the enigmatic primary source known as the ancient military manual. In particular, the volume explores the extent to which these diverse texts constitute a genre (sometimes unsatisfactorily classified as 'technical literature'), and the degree to which they reflect the practice of warfare. With contributions from a diverse group of scholars, the chapters examine military manuals from early Archaic Greece to the Byzantine period, covering a wide range of topics including readership, siege warfare, mercenaries, defeat, textual history, and religion. Coverage includes most of the major contemporary siege manual writers, including Xenophon, Frontinus, Vegetius, and Maurice. Close examination of these texts serves to reveals the complex ways in which ancient Greeks, Romans, and Byzantines sought to understand better, and impose order upon, the seemingly irrational phenomenon known as war. Providing insight into the multifaceted collection of texts that constituted military manuals, this volume is a key resource for students and scholars of warfare and military literature in the classical and Byzantine periods.
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• L'édition de textes
• I Frammenti degli Storici Greci : impianto metodologico e risultati
• L'unité et la datation de la Vie d'Auguste de Nicolas de Damas
• L'edizione critica dei cosidetti Excerpta Constantiniana de legationibus Romanorum (ELR). Problemi filologici e risorse di metodo
• Théodore le Lecteur passé au crible de ses abréviateurs, ou :
• Plaidoyer pour une édition numérique de son Histoire ecclésiastique
• Excerpta
• Zu den Fragmenten des Menandros Protektor im Projekt KFHist
• History through an Excerpt Collection. The Case of the Excerpta Anonymi and the Patria of Constantinople
• L'età dei Soldatenkaiser neiframmenti di Pietro Patrizio e del c.d. Anonymus post Dionem
• Épitomés et compilations
• Pour une archéologie des discours dans l'Histoire romaine de Cassius Dion (livres 1-21) : le témoignage de Zonaras
• Les discours au style direct dans les livres fragmentaires de Cassius Dion (Histoire romaine, livres 1-14) abrégés par Zonaras (Épitomé, livres 7 et 8)
• Les sources et la transmission de fragments
• Stefano di Bisanzio e la Suda. Trasmissori bizantini per la Licia e i suoi storici
• Scipione Emiliano, Onorio e il sacco di Roma del 410. Un passo conservato da Giorgio Cedreno sulla fine degli imperi
• Orose aurait-il pu lire Eunape ?
• À propos d'un fragment sur Arbogast (Hist. 7,35, 11)
• Considérations sur l'anonyme homéen
• Profils d'historiens
• Contexte littéraire et historique
• Filippo di Pergamo, uno storico in un santuario
• Gorgia di Atene e la letteratura
• The Tetrarchs and the Poet : Contextualizing the Fragments of Soterichus of Oasis
• How to corne to terras with the Emperor : the case of the Isaurian Candidus
• L'histoire vue par le fragment
• L'apport de Kandidos, Malchos et Jean d'Antioche à l'histoire politique du règne de Zénon (474-491)
• Plutarque, lecteur critique. Jalons d'une recherche sur l'historiographie fragmentaire grecque et latine
• Conclusion : Éloge des sources en bribes.

"Les experts en grec ancien ont longtemps focalisé leur travail sur la période des auteurs classiques, d'Hésiode à Plutarque. Or l'éclosion et l'épanouissement de l'Antiquité tardive ont, durant les dernières décennies, suscité un intérêt croissant pour les textes de la période impériale romaine jusqu'à ses siècles les plus tardifs. Par ailleurs, les historiens se sont montrés demandeurs d'éditions de textes méconnus ou peu accessibles. Parmi les textes historiques de langue grecque des IIe-VIIIe siècles, ceux qui nous sont parvenus sous forme de fragments sont particulièrement nombreux. Dans les années 1950, Felix Jacoby en dénombrait plus de 850. Les travaux se multiplient aujourd'hui sur ceux-ci, sous forme de repérages, classifications, élaborations de corpus, commentaires, analyses et traductions. Ce livre fait sortir de l'ombre de multiples auteurs, oubliés ou méconnus. Leur rassemblement inédit dessine ici une nouvelle physionomie de l'Orient romain en révélant, par une trame continue de la textualité grecque, une rémanence millénaire de la culture hellénistique entre le IIe et le XIIe siècle."--Page 4 of cover.

This study is devoted to the channels through which geographic knowledge circulated in classical societies outside of textual transmission. It explores understanding of geography among the non-elites, as opposed to scholarly and scientific geography solely in written form which was the province of a very small number of learned people. 0It deals with non-literary knowledge of geography, geography not derived from texts, as it was available to people, educated or not, who did not read geographic works. This main issue is composed of two central questions: how, if at all, was geographic data available outside of textual transmission and in contexts in which there was no need to write or read? And what could the public know of geography? In general, three groups of sources are relevant to this quest: oral communications preserved in writing; public non-textual performances; and visual artefacts and monuments. All these are examined as potential sources for the aural and visual geographic knowledge of Greco-Roman publics. 0This volume will be of interest to anyone working on geography in the ancient world and to those studying non-elite culture.

• List of Maps Preface Acknowledgments Note on Text/Translation Note on Bibliography List of Abbreviations Introduction Why Silius?
• Chapter 1
• Who is Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus?
• Chapter 2
• What is the Punica?
• Chapter 3
• A reading of Punica 1-10: from Saguntum to Cannae
• Chapter 4
• A reading of Punica 11-17: from Cannae to Zama
• Chapter 5
• Carthage and Rome in the Punica,
• part 1
• Chapter 6
• Carthage and Rome in the Punica,
• part 2 Conclusion Silius Italicus and the Punica in Classical literature Notes Bibliography Index.
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In a much-needed comprehensive introduction to Silius Italicus and the Punica, Jacobs offers an invitation to students and scholars alike to read the epic as a thoughtful and considered treatment of Rome's past, present, and (perilous) future. The Second Punic War marked a turning point in world history: Rome faced her greatest external threat in the famous Carthaginian general Hannibal, and her victory led to her domination of the Mediterranean. Lingering memories of the conflict played a pivotal role in the city's transition from Republic to Empire, from foreign war to civil war. Looking back after the events of AD 69, the senator-poet Silius Italicus identified the Second Punic War as the turning point in Rome's history through his Punica. After introductory chapters for those new to the poet and his poem, Jacobs' close reading of the epic narrative guides students and scholars alike through the Punica. All Greek and Latin passages are translated to ensure accessibility for those reading in English. Far more than simply a retelling of Rome's greatest triumph, the Punica challenges its reader to make sense of the Second Punic War in light of its full impact on the subsequent course of the city's history.
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• AUC history : women and the art of exemplary storytelling
• Gendered collectives in Livy : the agmen mulierum and independent female demonstrations in AUC history
• The rhetoric of the unfamiliar other : non-Roman women in AUC history
• Topoi, tropes and the female : the rhetorical memory of the annalist tradition
• Final observations.

"Livy's Women explores the profound questions arising from the presence of women of influence and power in the socio-political canvas of one of the most important histories of Rome and the Roman people, Ab Urbe Condita (From the Foundation of the City). This theoretically informed study of Livy's monumental narrative charts the fascinating links between episodes containing references to women in prominent roles and the historian's treatment of Rome's evolutionary foundation story. Explicitly gendered in relation to the socio-cultural contexts informing the narrative, the author's background, the literary landscape of Livy's Rome, and the subsequent historiographical commentary, this volume offers a comprehensive, coherent and contextualised overview of all episodes in Ab Urbe Condita relating to women as agents of historical change. As well as proving invaluable insights into socio-cultural history for Classicists, Livy's Women will also be of interest to instructors, researchers, and students of female representation in history in general"-- Provided by publisher.

• Mystery cults and visual language in Greaco-Roman antiquity / Nicole Belayche, Francesco Massa
• Part 1. Do images depict mystery cults, and if so, how? Comment figurer l'ineffable, comment lire les images? / Cornelia Isler-Kerényi
• Le phallus qui cache le mystère? Les images dionysiaques dans les décors romains : à propos d'une fresque de la Domus Transitoria / Stépanie Wyler
• Échos de la Télétè dionysiaque dans la mosaïque romaine tardive / Janine Balty
• Part 2. Historiography and images of mystery cults. 'The seven grades of Mithraism', or How to build a religion / Philippa Adrych
• Les mystères isiaques et leurs expressions figurées : Des exégèses modernes aux allusions antiques / Richard Veymiers
• The Liknon and the bundle : does the ritual 'initiatory' object make the mystery? / Anne-Françoise Jaccottet
• The cista, a hallmark of Mater Magna's mysteries in the Roman world? / Françoise Van Haeperen

Mystery Cults in Visual Representation in Graeco-Roman Antiquity aims to fill a gap in the study of mystery cults in Graeco-Roman Antiquity by focusing on images for investigating their ritual praxis. Nicole Belayche and Francesco Massa have gathered experts on visual language in order to illuminate cultic rituals renowned for both their "mysteries" and their images. This book tackles three interrelated questions. Focusing on the cult of Dionysus, it analyses whether, and how, images are used to depict mystery cults. The relationship between historiography and images of mystery cults is considered with a focus on the Mithraic and Isiac cults. Finally, turning to the cults of Dionysus and the Mother of the Gods, this work shows how depictions of specific cultic objects succeed in expressing mystery cults.
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• 1. Approaching Roman Christian Diplomacy in Context
• 2. Mission to Himyar and Aksum in Context
• 3. Constantius' Bishop Management Program
• 4. Constantius' Bureaucracy Abroad
• 5. John Chrysostom's Mission to Gothia
• 6. Marouta of Maiferqat and the Mission to Persia
• 7. John's Attention to Evolving Collective Religious Identities
• 8. First Steps toward a New Christian Diplomacy
• 9. Byzantine Trajectories.
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This book illuminates the origins of Roman Christian diplomacy through two case studies: Constantius II's imperial strategy in the Red Sea; and John Chrysostom's ecclesiastical strategy in Gothia and Sasanian Persia. Both men have enjoyed a strong narrative tradition: Constantius as a persecuting, theological fanatic, and Chrysostom as a stubborn, naive reformer. Yet this tradition has often masked their remarkable innovations. As part of his strategy for conquest, Constantius was forced to focus on Alexandria, demonstrating a carefully orchestrated campaign along the principal eastern trade route. Meanwhile, whilst John Chrysostom' s preaching and social reform have garnered extensive discussion, his late sermons and letters composed in exile reveal an ambitious program to establish church structures outside imperial state control. The book demonstrates that these two pioneers innovated a diplomacy that utilised Christianity as a tool for forging alliances with external peoples; a procedure that would later become central to Byzantine statecraft. It will appeal to all those interested in Early Christianity and late antique/medieval history.
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• 1. Introduction--
• 2. Notes on the geographical context of early Rome--
• 3. The beginnings of a longue duree--
• 4. The Early Iron Age (Latial Phases II and III)--
• 5. A settlement unlike others: the economic background to the rise of Rome--
• 6. Latial Phase IV--
• 7. Latial Phase IV A--
• 8. Latial Phase IV B--
• 9. The archaic phase (580-500 BC)--
• 10. Modelling the demography and consumption--
• 11. People, places, times and institutions of roman archaic economy--
• 12. The economics of the early calendar--
• 13. The early Latins overseas--
• 14. The Fifth century BC--
• 15. Crisis and opportunities in the fifth century BC--
• 16. The archaeological evidence of the fourth century BC--
• 17. The fourth century transformations and the end of the roman archaic economy--
• 18. Epilogue-- Appendices.
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In this book, Gabriele Cifani reconstructs the early economic history of Rome, from the Iron Age to the early Republic. Bringing a multidisciplinary approach to the topic, he argues that the early Roman economy was more diversified than has been previously acknowledged, going well beyond agriculture and pastoralism. Cifani bases his argument on a systematic review of archaeological evidence for production, trade and consumption. He posits that the existence of a network system, based on cultural interaction, social mobility, and trade, connected Rome and central Tyrrhenian Italy to the Mediterranean Basin even in this early period of Rome's history. Moreover, these trade and cultural links existed in parallel to regional, diversified economies, and institutions. Cifani's book thus offers new insights into the economic basis for the rise of Rome, as well as the social structures of Mediterranean Iron Age societies.
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