Back to Medieval Source Book | ORB Main Page | Links to Other Medieval Sites | Medieval Sourcebook: Tacitus: Germania Tacitus, an important Roman historian, wrote the most detailed early description of the Germans at then end of the first century CE.. In doing so, be warned, he was commenting on the Rome of his own time, as much as on the German themselves. Note that although this is most of ...

Back to Ancient History Sourcebook | Ancient History Sourcebook: Polybius (c.200-after 118 BCE): The Character of Hannibal The Histories, Book IX, Chapters 22-26: Of all that befell the Romans and Carthaginians, good or bad, the cause was one man and one mind---Hannibal. For it is notorious that he managed the Italian campaigns in person, and the Spanish by the agency of the elder of his ...

Back to Medieval Source Book | ORB Main Page | Links to Other Medieval Sites | Medieval Sourcebook: Corpus Iuris Civilis: The Digest and Codex: Marriage Laws Roman law developed as a mixture of laws, senatorial consults, imperial decrees, case law, and opinions issued by jurists. One of the most long lasting of Justinian's actions was the gathering of these materials in the 530s into a single ...

Back to Jewish History Sourcebook | Back to Medieval Sourcebook | Halsall History Web Sites Page | Jewish History Sourcebook: Jews and the Later Roman Law 315-531 CE The Middle Ages, for the Jew at least, begin with the advent to power of Constantine the Great (306-337). He was the first Roman emperor to issue laws which radically limited the rights of Jews as citizens of the Roman Empire, a ...

Back to Medieval Source Book | ORB Main Page | Links to Other Medieval Sites | Byzantine Studies Page Medieval Sourcebook: Procopius of Caesarea: The Secret History Procopius: Secret History, translated by Richard Atwater, (Chicago: P. Covici, 1927; New York: Covici Friede, 1927), reprinted, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1961, with indication that copyright had expired on the text ...

Back to Ancient History Sourcebook | Ancient History Sourcebook: Slavery in the Roman Republic The Conduct and Treatment of Slaves. : A Roman playwright, Plautus, writing about the time of the end of the Second Punic War (201 B.C.), gives this picture of an inconsiderate master, and the kind of treatment his slaves were likely to get. Very probably conditions grew worse rather than better for ...

Back to Ancient History Sourcebook | Ancient History Sourcebook: Res Gestae Divi Augusti, c. 14 CE This is, perhaps, the most famous inscription left us by Antiquity. It is inscribed on marble in a building which was a temple of Augustus in Ankara, Asia Minor . The original of this document seems to have been set up in bronze before the great Emperor's mausoleum in Rome, and this is one of the ...

Back to Ancient History Sourcebook | Ancient History Sourcebook: Procopius of Caesarea: Alaric's Sack of Rome, 410 CE History of the Wars , III.ii.7-39 But the Visigoths, separating from the others, removed from there and at first entered into an alliance with the Emperor Arcadius, but at a later time (for faith with the Romans cannot dwell in barbarians), under the leadership of Alaric, they ...

Back to Ancient History Sourcebook | Ancient History Sourcebook: Eutropius (4th Cent CE): The Reign of Marcus Aurelius, 161-180 CE Marcus Aurelius was Emperor from 161 to 180 A.D. No ruler ever came to power with higher ideals and purposes, but the reign was not a very prosperous one. The philosopher in the purple was afflicted by the widespread pestilences in the Empire, and by the dangerous ...

Back to Ancient History Sourcebook | Ancient History Sourcebook: Tacitus: The End of the Republic Tacitus begins the Annals by describing how the civil war and proscriptions (mass executions of political opponents) had destroyed the Republic. Rome at the beginning was ruled by kings. Freedom and the consulship were established by Lucius Brutus. Dictatorships were held for a temporary crisis. The ...

Back to Medieval Source Book | ORB Main Page | Links to Other Medieval Sites | Medieval Sourcebook: Tacitus: Germania, trans. Thomas Gordon Introductory Note The dates of the birth and death of Tacitus are uncertain, but it is probable that he was born about 54 A. D. and died after 117. He was a contemporary and friend of the younger Pliny, who addressed to him some of his most famous epistles.

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AUGUSTUS: IMAGES OF POWER Mark Morford, Classics Department, University of Virginia To view larger images, click on the small images at the head of each section. Part 1: The Mausoleum (1-7) 1. The Campus Martius was a large low-lying area north of the Capitolium, lying outside the pomerium. Here the Roman people met under arms and practiced military training. Towards the end of the Republic the ...

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Will you live or die after your first fight as a Roman gladiator Find out what fate awaits you on your journey to the arena. Watch out...as a barbarian fighting against the Romans you are about to be captured, sold as a slave and trained to become a ROMAN GLADIATOR! To use this Web Book place your cursor over the images to see the comments. Click on Next and Previous to navigate through the ...

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THE LEGIO X GEMINA HOMEPAGE Ave This is the homepage of the Gemina Project, a Dutch reenactment society that portrays Roman soldiers and civilians as they would have appeared in the last quarter of the first century AD when the legio X Gemina was stationed at the castra of Nijmegen. Currently the society can field about two contubernia of legionaries with the associated officers and NCO's, a ...

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Pharsalia (aka The Civil War ) By Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus) A.D. 39 - A.D. 65 Online Medieval and Classical Library Release #16b Originally written in Latin, approximately A.D. 61-65, by the Roman poet Lucan, and probably left unfinished upon his death in A.D. 65. Although the work has been generally known through most of history as the Pharsalia , modern scholarship tends to agree that ...

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Free trial issue subscribe back issues Athena Review, Vol.1, no.1 The Landings of Caesar in Britain, 55 and 54 BC . Deal Beach in Kent. This shoreline near Walmer Castle is probably in the area where Julius Caesar and his troops landed during the two Roman excursions to Britain of 55 and 54 BC. In the distance, the cliffs of Dover may be seen to the south. The beach is made up of small stones or ...

The Golden Asse by Lucius Apuleius Adlington's translation, 1566. This edition by Martin Guy, 1996 Table of Contents Notes on this Edition Epistle Dedicatory To the Reader The Life of Lucius Apuleius The Preface of the Author Glossary First Booke Second Booke Third Booke Fourth Booke Fifth Booke Sixth Booke Seventh Booke Eighth Booke Ninth Booke Tenth Booke Eleventh Booke This edition is ...

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A history of Ancient Rome concerning the three short-lived emperors of A.D. 69, Galba, Otho and Vitellius, and the three emperors of the succeeding Flavian dynasty (Vespasian, 69-79; Titus, 79-81; and Domitian, 81-96). Originally twelve or fourteen books in length, the Histories survive to the extent of the first four and a portion of the fifth, covering the 'Year of the Four Emperors' A.D. 69, ...

The Domus of Senex Caecilius The domus is located on the collis Viminalis, one of the seven hills of Rome, not far from the Forum. Please excuse the mess. I am relocating from another site, and some of the furniture has not arrived. In the interim, please look around and make yourself at home. Just knock on the door, and my gatekeeper will admit you immediately. Join Senex for a look at the ...

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Virtual Catalog of Roman Coins An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors DIR Atlas AUGUSTUS (31 B.C. - 14 A.D.) Garrett G. Fagan Pennsylvania State University Introduction Augustus is arguably the single most important figure in Roman history. In the course of his long and spectacular career, he put an end to the advancing decay of the Republic and established a new basis for Roman government ...

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The following article is from a special issue of Helios entitled Rescuing Creusa: New Methodological Approaches to Women in Antiquity, (Helios, New Series 13(2), 1986, pp. 69-84). This article is particular enlightening not only for its detailed discussion of midwives and maternity care, but also because it examines the gap between professional care (the midwifes and doctors) and folk medicine.

Back to Ancient History Sourcebook | Ancient History Sourcebook: Polybius (c.200-after 118 BCE): Rome at the End of the Punic Wars : ROME, with the end of the third Punic war, 146 B. C., had completely conquered the last of the civilized world. The best authority for this period of her history is Polybius. He was born in Arcadia, in 204 B. C., and died in 122 B. C. Polybius was an officer of the ...

A complete extensively indexed and fully notated version of Edward Gibbon's History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire.

Robert Graves and the Twelve Caesars by Gore Vidal A little effete and even degenerate (but then I am a typical 20th century North American in his eyes, I guess), Gore Vidal is an essayist of the highest rank, in my opinion. Below is an example of Vidal at his best - especially towards the end of his essay when he speaks of the ubiquitous tyranny of the post-WWII world. Most of the world today ...

The Roman Empire 27 BC- AD 312 The Founding of the Empire: 27 BC to AD 17 27 BC to AD 14: Augustus 70-19 BC: Vergil 65-8 BC: Horace 43 BC to AD 18: Ovid 59 BC to AD 17: Livy The Pax Romana: AD 17 to 180 The Julio-Claudian Dynasty 17-37: Tiberius 37-41: Gaius (Caligula) 41-54: Claudius 54-68: Nero 69: Year of the Four Emperors The Flavian Dynasty 69-79: Vespasian 79-81: Titus 81-96: Domitian The ...

Resources for Augustan Studies Table of Contents Augustan Web Sites Augustan Writings: RGDA Related Historical Texts Related Poetry and Prose BACK | NEXT Egypt | Near East | Tel Dor | Aegean Classics | Herakles | Greece | Rome Augustus | Medieval | Archaeology Numismatics | Museums Universities | Books Prima Porta statue of Augustus, ca. 20 A.D. copy of 20 B.C. statue, found on the site of ...

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Back to Ancient History Sourcebook | Ancient History Sourcebook: Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): The Divine Augustus 1. That the family of the Octavii was of the first distinction in Velitrae, is rendered evident by many circumstances. For in the most frequented part of the town there was, not long since, a street named the Octavian; and an altar was to be seen, consecrated to one Octavius, who ...

LIFE OF AUGUSTUS by Nicolaus of Damascus Translated by Clayton M. Hall (1923) FGrH F 125: (1) Men gave him this name in view of his claim to honor; and, scattered over islands and continents, through city and tribe, they revere him by building temples and by sacrificing to him, thus requiting him for his great virtue and acts of kindness toward themselves. For this man, having attained ...

The Mausoleum of Augustus and the Res Gestae The complex to which the Res Gestae belonged included the Mausoleum of Augustus, two obelisks, the Ara Pacis, the Ustrinum, and two pillars (mentioned in the text) on which the Res Gestae was carved. Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum I2 244: (calendar: referring to July 4, 13 B.C.) FER(IAE) EX S(ENATUS) C(ONSULTO) Q(UOD) E(O) D(IE) ARA PACIS AUG(USTAE) ...

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Back to Ancient History Sourcebook | Ancient History Sourcebook: Suetonius (c.69-after 122 CE): De Vita Caesarum, Divus Iulius (The Lives of the Caesars, The Deified Julius), written c. 110 CE I. IN the course of his sixteenth year he lost his father. In the next consulate, having previously been nominated priest of Jupiter , he broke his engagement with Cossutia, a lady of only equestrian rank, ...

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Back to Ancient History Sourcebook | Back to Medieval Sourcebook Ancient History Sourcebook: Ammianus Marcellinus (c.330-395 CE): History, XIV.16: The Luxury of the Rich in Rome, c. 400 CE. : The following was written only about a generation before Alaric plundered Rome in 410 CE. Ammianus Marcellinus, who observed Rome on a visit, saw the city as full of emptiness, shallowness, and as lacking ...

Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater), Rome, 72-80 CE. Digital Imaging Project: Art historical images of European and North American architecture and sculpture from classical Greek to Post-modern. Scanned from slides taken on site by Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College.

The Roman Republican Constitution Introduction The Romans never had a written constitution, but their form of their government, especially from the time of the passage of the lex Hortensia (287 B.C.), roughly parallels the modern American division of executive, legislative, and judical branches, although the senate doesn't neatly fit any of these categories. What follows is a fairly traditional, ...

Home Location Faculty Programs Courses Current Events Latin Day Resources Professor Rutledge excavating at Corinth. Associate Professor Steven H. Rutledge (srutled@deans.umd.edu) graduated with his bachelors from the University of Massachusetts at Boston in 1989 and earned his doctorate from Brown University in 1996. He also attended the American Academy in Rome (summer 1994) and was a student ...

Structuring Roman History: the Consular Year and the Roman Historical Tradition John Rich (University of Nottingham) ABSTRACT This article is concerned with the shaping of the annual narrative in historical writers working in the Roman annalistic tradition and contests the view that Livy and his predecessors conformed to a standard pattern from which Tacitus departed. It is true that Livy in ...

Plutarch's Parallel Lives You will find here Sir Thomas North's 1579 English translation of Plutarch's Parallel Lives -- classical biographies of ancient Roman and Greek men that incorporate innovative and subtle analyses of individual character. North's version of Plutarch's Lives was Shakespeare's primary source for his play Julius Caesar. We have used here J. W. Skeat's nineteenth century ...

Back to Ancient History Sourcebook | Ancient History Sourcebook: Juvenal: Satire 1 (English) Introduction | Juvenal: Satire 1 Latin | Satire 1 English | Satire 1 English/Latin Juvenal: Satire 2 Latin | Satire 2 English | Satire 2 English/Latin Juvenal: Satire 3 Latin | Satire 3 English | Satire 3 English/Latin THE SATIRES OF JUVENAL SATIRE I DIFFICILE EST SATURAM NON SCRIBERE WHAT Am I to be a ...

Back to Ancient History Sourcebook | Ancient History Sourcebook: Cicero: On Friendship, or Laelius Introduction Marcus Tullius Cicero, the greatest of Roman orators and the chief master of Latin prose style, was born at Arpinum, Jan. 3, 106 B.C. His father, who was a man of property and belonged to the class of the Knights, moved to Rome when Cicero was a child; and the future statesman ...

BECK index Roman Expansion to 133 BC Roman and Etruscan Kings Republic of Rome 509-343 BC Rome's Conquest of Italy 343-264 BC Rome at War with Carthage 264-201 BC Republican Rome's Imperialism 201-133 BC Flint axes indicate that humans lived in the Italian peninsula as early as 200, 000 years ago, and skulls of the Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon people have also been found. Farming began about 5, 000 ...

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Exploring Ancient World Cultures Essays on Ancient Rome Mithraism Alison Griffith Reprinted with permission from the Ecole Initiative. Mithraism is the ancient Roman mystery cult of the god Mithras. Roman worship of Mithras began sometime during the early Roman empire, perhaps during the late first century of the Common Era (hereafter CE), and flourished from the second through the fourth ...

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Rome and Christiianity in the years 307 to 410. A chapter in an e-book on antiquity.

The City of God Against The Pagans Saint Augustine of Hippo This book was written by Saint Augustine in 413-426 AD. He describes two cities: the earthly city and the city of god. The earthly city contains the damned, whom God has not chosen to save. The city of God contains those who have been 'repaired' by God's grace, and who are therefore able to escape vanity, to love God as they should, and ...

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Caerleon was the site of one of three Roman Legionary Fortresses in Britain. Find out about the Roman Army based here.

The Roman institution of marriage has been lauded as being the first purely humanistic law of marriage, one that is based on the idea of marriage being a free and freely dissolvable union of two equal partners for life. (Schulz, 1951;103) This is quite a simplistic view, as there were many differing forms of marriage in Rome, from the arranged marriages of the elite to the unions of slaves and ...

Vol.1, no.1, index Get a free issue on Roman Britain Athena Review Vol.1, No.1 Description by Tacitus of the Rebellion of Boudicca (AD 60-61) . Chapter 29. During the consulship of Lucius Caesennius Paetus and Publius Petronius Turpilianus , a dreadful calamity befell the army in Britain. Aulus Didius, as has been mentioned, aimed at no extension of territory, content with maintaining the ...

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Women of Rome Private Lives and Public Personae (Intro) | Intro | Excerpts | Entire Paper | | Women's Life in Greece and Rome | Dr. Susan Martin University of Tennessee 'This paper was originally written for presentation in the Tuesday Topics lecture series sponsored by the University of Tennessee College of Arts and Sciences Office of Outreach and Public Service. I am grateful to Dr. Lynn ...

Ammianus Marcellinus on the Geography of the Pontus Euxinus Jan Willem Drijvers (Department of History, University of Groningen) Das eitle Bemuhen um Allwissenheit, wie es der Fluch aller encyclopadischen Bildung ist, und vor allem der Fluch jener unseligen, auch auf dem geistigen Gebiet, in der Trummerwelt einer gr ssern Vergangenheit kummerlich hausenden Generationen war, zeigt sich bei Ammian.

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The Quintilian Page by Brian Lewis Quintilian, premier guide of wayward youth, Quintilian, glory of the Roman toga. ---Trans. from Martial, II., 90. 1-2. Welcome to Brian Lewis's Quintilian page. Here you will learn all you ever wanted to know (and then some) about Quintilian. At this site, you will find the following: An annotated hypertext of Books I-VI of Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria.

Mores Construction | Road Map | Pictures As early as the 4th century BC, a good road system was recognized as vital for military deployment, communication and increasing commerce. By having an option to traveling around the peninsula or along the coast line of Italy, travellers and merchants could avoid some threat of storms, pirates and navigational problems. Click the links on the left to ...

Back to Ancient History Sourcebook | Ancient History Sourcebook: Augustan Encomiums, c. 31 BCE - 14 CE : In 17 B.C. Augustus celebrated the Secular Games, a peculiarly solemn event, supposedly permitted only once in a century. The occasion was one of general jubilation over the notable peace and prosperity of the age. The Secular Hymn by the court poet Horace is perhaps the most successful ...

Karen Meredith, Foothill College: A Contempt for Pain and Death Gladiators - Who Were They The word gladiator comes from the Latin for swordsman, from gladius, sword. That definition does not do justice to the life of that professional combatant. The first gladiators were part of a sacrificial rite adopted from the Etruscans. First introduced to Rome in 264 BC, the sons of Junius Brutus honored ...

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An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors DIR Atlas Livia (Wife of Augustus) Donna Hurley Introduction Livia, as history most often knows her, ] was the wife of Augustus for over fifty years, from 38 BC until his death in AD 14 , an astonishingly long time in view of life expectancy in ancient Rome. Although certainty about their inner lives and proof for what we would consider a loving ...

Alpha Index Agrippa, Marcus Albinus, Lucceius Alexander, Tiberius Ambivulus, Marcus Antony, Marc Augustus (Octavian) Bassus Caesar, Julius Caesar, Sextus Caligula (Gaius) Cassius Claudius Coponius Cumanus, Ventidius Domitian Fadus, Cuspius Felix, Antonius Festus, Porcius Florus, Gessius Gabinius Gaius (Caligula) Galba Gallus, Cestius Gratus, Valerius Marcellus Marsus, Vibius Metellus Scipio ...

THE PERSONAE OF AUGUSTUS The Emperor Augustus, during his lifetime, 'wore many hats', that is, appeared to various people in different capacities at various times. One of the arcana imperii was certainly his ability to mix and match these personae as needed, to achieve the maximum political and social effect upon Romans and their subjects. These functions were often carried out through ...

Forum pictures biography and Virgil books online: The Aeneid, The Bucolics and Ecloges, The Georgics.

Roman Culture: Gladiators The Colosseum The Colosseum The Colosseum is one of Rome's most famous buildings. Initiated by Vespaisian, the official opening ceremonies were conducted by emperor Titus in AD 80. In its prime the huge theater consisted of four floors. The first three had arched entrances, while the fourth floor utilized rectangular doorways. The floors each measured between 10, 5-13, 9 ...

Forum pictures biography and Plutarch books online: Plutarch's Lives, trans by A. H. Clough.

ALEXANDER 356-323 B.C. by Plutarch (79 AD) translated by John Dryden text source || image source IT being my purpose to write the lives of Alexander the king, and of Caesar, by whom Pompey was destroyed, the multitude of their great actions affords so large a field that I were to blame if I should not by way of apology forewarn my reader that I have chosen rather to epitomize the most celebrated ...

Verulamium Roman City at St Albans was the third largest City in Roman Britain ...

The Emperor Augustus 27 BC-AD 14 The first and perhaps greatest of the Roman emperors, Augustus ended a bloody civil war, ruled with wisdom and power, and united and kept peace in Rome for many years. Augustus was born with the name Octavian. Well educated in philosophy, rhetoric, and military skills as a boy, he was adopted by his uncle Julius Caesar and became his heir. When Caesar was ...

Plutarch's Lives, (tr. A. H. Clough) by Plutarch with annotations advancing emotional literacy education from the Encyclopedia of the Self.

Florence Dupont's The Ancient Roman Family looks at ancient Roman marriage as a means of cementing political alliances and the family as the foundation of moral character.

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Contents | Index He was quite handsome.... Sometimes he would clip his beard; sometimes he would shave it. While his barbers were at work on him, it was not unusual for him to read or write.... His eyes were clear and radiant.... His complexion was between dark and fair. Though only five feet, six inches in height . . his shortness was not too noticeable because of the good proportions of his ...

From Octavian to Augustus: Images Illustrating His Rise to Power During the decades leading up to Julius Caesar's dictatorship, Roman coinage took on an increasingly personal character, displaying designs with a clear propagandistic message promoting the family or the political favorites of the moneyer who struck the coins for that year. Types commemorated victories, beneficent legislation, ...

Not only for naval history buffs, butfor all those who love the sea and the classics, and especially for thosewho, like me, are fascinated by Roman civilisation. Contributions seekingto reconstruct the naval andmaritime history of ancient Rome and to increase our knowledge of thoseRomans who became illustrious at sea ...

Pictures from Roman France and Tunisia.

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An index of poems by Caius Valerius Catullus.

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