During the period between the end of the Hannibalic War and Octavian's decisive victory in the battle of Actium in 31 BC, the Italian peninsula gradually evolved as the heartland of the Roman Empire as it was expanding across the Mediterranean. The international team of contribu…
"Roman Warfare surveys the history of Rome's fighting forces from their inception in the seventh century BCE to the fall of the Western Empire in the fifth century CE. In nontechnical, lively language, Jonathan P. Roth examines the evolution of Roman warfare over its thousand-ye…
"Theatre flourished in the Roman Republic, from the tragedies of Ennius and Pacuvius to the comedies of Plautus and Terence and the mimes of Laberius. Yet apart from the surviving plays of Plautus and Terence the sources are fragmentary and difficult to interpret and contextuali…
"What did the concept of manliness mean among the ancient Romans? How was it related to other Roman social and political institutions, such as the family and the Res Publica? How did it change over time? Recent studies of ancient Roman masculinities have concentrated on the priv…
In der politischen Auseinandersetzung überzieht Cicero Mitglieder der Senatsaristokratie mit Schmähungen, um den Leumund, das Ansehen und damit auch den Rang seiner politischen Gegner nachhaltig zu erschüttern. Die rufschädigenden Vorwürfe werden von Cicero nach einem sich inhal…
In der politischen Auseinandersetzung überzieht Cicero Mitglieder der Senatsaristokratie mit Schmähungen, um den Leumund, das Ansehen und damit auch den Rang seiner politischen Gegner nachhaltig zu erschüttern. Die rufschädigenden Vorwürfe werden von Cicero nach einem sich inhal…
In der politischen Auseinandersetzung überzieht Cicero Mitglieder der Senatsaristokratie mit Schmähungen, um den Leumund, das Ansehen und damit auch den Rang seiner politischen Gegner nachhaltig zu erschüttern. Die rufschädigenden Vorwürfe werden von Cicero nach einem sich inhal…
"In modern times there have been studies of the Roman Republican institutions as a whole as well as in-depth analyses of the senate, the popular assemblies, the tribunate of the plebs, the aedileship, the praetorship and the censorship. However, the consulship, the highest magis…
This dissertation examines the relationship of the Latin poet Catullus to the preceding Latin poetic tradition, particularly to the pre-eminent figure of that tradition, pater Ennius. Classical scholarship has long thought the nature of this relationship settled: in a surge of r…
The purpose of my dissertation is to offer an alternative view on the impact of the army on the Italian economy with particular focus on the second century, the period between the end of the Second Punic War and the age of the Gracchi, a period of crucial importance for the Roma…