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The Historians of Ancient Rome
The Historians of Ancient Rome is the most comprehensive collection of ancient sources for Roman history available in a single English volume.
After a general introduction on Roman historical writing, extensive passages from more than a dozen Greek and Roman historians and biographers trace the history of Rome over more than a thousand years: from the city's foundation by Romulus in 753 B.C.E. (Livy) to Constantine's edict of toleration for Christianity (313 C.E.)
Selections include many of the high points of Rome's climb to world domination: the defeat of Hannibal; the conquest of Greece and the eastern Mediterranean; the defeat of the Catilinarian conspirators; Caesar's conquest of Gaul; Antony and Cleopatra; the establishment of the Empire by Caesar Augustus; and the \"Roman Peace\" under Hadrian and long excepts from Tacitus record the horrors of the reigns of Tiberius and Nero.
The book is intended both for undergraduate courses in Roman history and for the general reader interested in approaching the Romans through the original historical sources. Hence, excerpts of Polybius, Livy, and Tacitus are extensive enough to be read with pleasure as an exciting narrative. Now in its third edition, changes to this thoroughly revised volume include a new timeline, translations of several key inscriptions such as the Twelve Tables, and additional readings. This is a book which no student of Roman history should be without.
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The Historians of Ancient Rome
The Historians of Ancient Rome is the most comprehensive collection of ancient sources for Roman history available in a single English volume. After a general introduction on Roman historical writing, extensive passages from more than a dozen Greek and Roman historians and biographers trace the history of Rome over more than a thousand years: from the city's foundation by Romulus in 753 B.C.E. (Livy) to Constantine's edict of toleration for Christianity (313 C.E.)Selections include many of the high points of Rome's climb to world domination: the defeat of Hannibal; the conquest of Greece and the eastern Mediterranean; the defeat of the Catilinarian conspirators; Caesar's conquest of Gaul; Antony and Cleopatra; the establishment of the Empire by Caesar Augustus; and the \"Roman Peace\" under Hadrian and long excepts from Tacitus record the horrors of the reigns of Tiberius and Nero.The book is intended both for undergraduate courses in Roman history and for the general reader interested in approaching the Romans through the original historical sources. Hence, excerpts of Polybius, Livy, and Tacitus are extensive enough to be read with pleasure as an exciting narrative. Now in its third edition, changes to this thoroughly revised volume include a new timeline, translations of several key inscriptions such as the Twelve Tables, and additional readings. This is a book which no student of Roman history should be without.
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The Roman Historians
The Romans' devotion to their past pervades almost every aspect of their culture. But the clearest image of how the Romans wished to interpret their past is found in their historical writings. This book examines in detail the major Roman historians:* Sallust* Livy* Tacitus* Ammianusas well as the biographies written by:* Nepos* Tacitus* Suetonius* the Augustan History* the autobiographies of Julius Caesar and the Emperor Augustus.Ronald Mellor demonstrates that Roman historical writing was regarded by its authors as a literary not a scholarly exercise, and how it must be evaluated in that context. He shows that history writing reflected the political structures of ancient Rome under the different regimes.
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Memories of Gary Nash over Five Decades
It is as a longtime client, softball teammate, colleague, traveling companion, and friend that the author writes this article to honor Gary Nash. He has known him in varied guises in five different decades, and on five continents, with Africa coming in 2009. In this article, the author recalls some of his memories of Gary over five decades.
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Tacitus, Academic Politics, and Regicide in the Reign of Charles I: The Tragedy of Dr. Isaac Dorislaus
Late in the sixteenth century the Tacitist movement reached England, and Tacitus gradually became an intellectual rallying point with political dissenters as he had already done on the continent. When the poet-statesman Fulke Greville founded the first chair of ancient history at Cambridge in 1627, he appointed a Dutch scholar, Isaac Dorislaus, to lecture on Tacitus. After only two lectures, Dorislaus was quickly relieved of his duties. The surviving Latin summary of the lectures shows that Dorislaus focused on the contrast between legal and tyrannical monarchy. That was not a welcome contrast under Charles I, and the professor thus incurred the wrath of the court party at Cambridge. Dorislaus later reached his greatest public prominence during the trial of King Charles at which he served as counsel for the prosecution. He assisted in preparing the charges of treason against King Charles and in managing the trial. A year after the execution of the king, irate British monarchists dramatically murdered Isaac Dorislaus in the Hague. This essay attempts to show how this violent drama of the English Civil War forms part of the story of the reception of classical texts and ideas in 17th century England.
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The California History-Social Science Project (CHSSP)
One early lesson of the California History-Social Science Project was the importance of explicitly addressing geography. Most teachers were much more familiar with history than geography--in fact the geography standards were slightly terrifying--so we needed to bring history and geography together.
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