ALISON COOLEY
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780197264669
- eISBN:
- 9780191753985
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264669.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter examines Roman attitudes towards the commemoration of those killed on campaign. In general, there is a lack in Roman public monuments recording the names of those who died in action, but ...
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This chapter examines Roman attitudes towards the commemoration of those killed on campaign. In general, there is a lack in Roman public monuments recording the names of those who died in action, but two notable exceptions are explored here: Cicero’s proposal to commemorate the dead of the Civil War, and the monuments at Adamclissi in Dacia. The chapter goes on to discuss other ways in which war, and the casualties of war, were commemorated in Rome, in particular through the incorporation of the anniversaries of significant military events into the city’s religious calendar.Less
This chapter examines Roman attitudes towards the commemoration of those killed on campaign. In general, there is a lack in Roman public monuments recording the names of those who died in action, but two notable exceptions are explored here: Cicero’s proposal to commemorate the dead of the Civil War, and the monuments at Adamclissi in Dacia. The chapter goes on to discuss other ways in which war, and the casualties of war, were commemorated in Rome, in particular through the incorporation of the anniversaries of significant military events into the city’s religious calendar.
Monica Cyrino (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781474400275
- eISBN:
- 9781474412148
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474400275.001.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy
Rome Season Two: Trial and Triumph is a collection of seventeen original research essays that responds to the critical and commercial success of the second season of the HBO television series, Rome ...
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Rome Season Two: Trial and Triumph is a collection of seventeen original research essays that responds to the critical and commercial success of the second season of the HBO television series, Rome (2005-07). While Rome gained immediate notoriety for its heady mix of exceptionally high production values with gripping performances and plot lines, the series also offers a new visual, narrative, and thematic aesthetic for the depiction of the tumultuous period after Caesar’s assassination, and in particular, the struggle between Octavian and Antony, the role of Cleopatra, and the story’s many received meanings. The essays in this volume explore the ways in which Rome nods to earlier receptions of ancient Rome as well as to more recent popular onscreen recreations of antiquity, while at the same time the series applies new techniques of interrogation to current social issues and concerns. The contributors to this volume are all authorities in their various sub-fields of ancient history and literature, whose academic work also engages expertly with popular culture and modern media appropriations and adaptations of the ancient world. Individual chapters address questions of politics, war, and history, while examining the representation of gender and sexuality, race and class, spectacle and violence, all in the setting of late Republican Rome. This volume considers the second season of Rome as a provocative contribution to the understanding of how specific threads of classical reception are constantly being reinvented to suit contemporary tastes, aspirations, and anxieties.Less
Rome Season Two: Trial and Triumph is a collection of seventeen original research essays that responds to the critical and commercial success of the second season of the HBO television series, Rome (2005-07). While Rome gained immediate notoriety for its heady mix of exceptionally high production values with gripping performances and plot lines, the series also offers a new visual, narrative, and thematic aesthetic for the depiction of the tumultuous period after Caesar’s assassination, and in particular, the struggle between Octavian and Antony, the role of Cleopatra, and the story’s many received meanings. The essays in this volume explore the ways in which Rome nods to earlier receptions of ancient Rome as well as to more recent popular onscreen recreations of antiquity, while at the same time the series applies new techniques of interrogation to current social issues and concerns. The contributors to this volume are all authorities in their various sub-fields of ancient history and literature, whose academic work also engages expertly with popular culture and modern media appropriations and adaptations of the ancient world. Individual chapters address questions of politics, war, and history, while examining the representation of gender and sexuality, race and class, spectacle and violence, all in the setting of late Republican Rome. This volume considers the second season of Rome as a provocative contribution to the understanding of how specific threads of classical reception are constantly being reinvented to suit contemporary tastes, aspirations, and anxieties.
Seth Bernard
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190878788
- eISBN:
- 9780190878818
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190878788.003.0004
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Archaeology: Classical
This chapter analyzes the social and economic effects of the single largest construction project of pre-Imperial Rome, the circuit of walls built in the first half of the fourth century BCE. I employ ...
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This chapter analyzes the social and economic effects of the single largest construction project of pre-Imperial Rome, the circuit of walls built in the first half of the fourth century BCE. I employ an “energetics” approach (Abrams 1994), quantifying the labor-cost of the walls’ construction by means of comparative data and close study of the monument’s remains. The resulting model provides a better idea not only of the walls’ total cost, but of the workforce’s composition, the balance of skilled and unskilled labor, and the schedule of construction. The costs are then input into a general model of the Roman economy in order to assess the broader impact of the walls’ costs. Archaeological and textual evidence indicate the walls were built with compulsory labor. This further underscores the likelihood that the project widened economic inequality and worsened existing socioeconomic tensions.Less
This chapter analyzes the social and economic effects of the single largest construction project of pre-Imperial Rome, the circuit of walls built in the first half of the fourth century BCE. I employ an “energetics” approach (Abrams 1994), quantifying the labor-cost of the walls’ construction by means of comparative data and close study of the monument’s remains. The resulting model provides a better idea not only of the walls’ total cost, but of the workforce’s composition, the balance of skilled and unskilled labor, and the schedule of construction. The costs are then input into a general model of the Roman economy in order to assess the broader impact of the walls’ costs. Archaeological and textual evidence indicate the walls were built with compulsory labor. This further underscores the likelihood that the project widened economic inequality and worsened existing socioeconomic tensions.
Michael Koortbojian
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780691195032
- eISBN:
- 9780691197494
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691195032.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Ancient History / Archaeology
This chapter explores the act of “crossing the pomerium” and how the distinction the pomerium created did not always correspond with lived realities. Although Republican Rome distinguished the urbs ...
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This chapter explores the act of “crossing the pomerium” and how the distinction the pomerium created did not always correspond with lived realities. Although Republican Rome distinguished the urbs both legally and religiously from what lay beyond the pomerium, its fundamental boundary, the disintegration of this essential division was merely one of the many Republican traditions whose demise would gradually define the advent of empire. Here, the chapter provides three examples that have long been regarded as representations of the imperator, as all Roman imagery demands to be set in the context of those legal, political, and religious institutions that not merely shaped but defined it. What ensues is a sketch of the broader institutional background within which this chapter establishes what it meant to be represented in this fashion at Rome. In so doing, the chapter demonstrates what was, for the Romans of the dawning imperial age, the very real significance of “crossing the pomerium” and entering the city under arms.Less
This chapter explores the act of “crossing the pomerium” and how the distinction the pomerium created did not always correspond with lived realities. Although Republican Rome distinguished the urbs both legally and religiously from what lay beyond the pomerium, its fundamental boundary, the disintegration of this essential division was merely one of the many Republican traditions whose demise would gradually define the advent of empire. Here, the chapter provides three examples that have long been regarded as representations of the imperator, as all Roman imagery demands to be set in the context of those legal, political, and religious institutions that not merely shaped but defined it. What ensues is a sketch of the broader institutional background within which this chapter establishes what it meant to be represented in this fashion at Rome. In so doing, the chapter demonstrates what was, for the Romans of the dawning imperial age, the very real significance of “crossing the pomerium” and entering the city under arms.
Philip Kay
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199681549
- eISBN:
- 9780191765018
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199681549.001.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Archaeology: Classical, European History: BCE to 500CE
This book examines economic change in Republican Rome and Italy between the Second Punic War and the middle of the first century BC and fills a major gap by explaining how the economic world of ...
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This book examines economic change in Republican Rome and Italy between the Second Punic War and the middle of the first century BC and fills a major gap by explaining how the economic world of Cicero came into being. The general proposition that the second and early first centuries bc were a time of economic change has been stated before, but there is no comprehensive study that has tackled economic development during this period. Indeed, to date, little attempt has been made to explain why, or indeed even whether, the Roman economy of the first century bc was significantly different, in qualitative or quantitative terms, from that of the late third century bc. The author argues, against the current orthodoxy among specialists, that the prime consequences of Rome’s conquest of the Mediterranean were financial. His thesis is that increased inflows of bullion, in particular silver, combined with an expansion of the availability of credit to produce significant growth in monetary liquidity. In turn, this increase in the supply and availability of money stimulated market developments, such as investment farming, trade, construction, and manufacturing. In the final chapter, the author constructs a probabilistic quantification of the Italian economy to show that real per capita economic growth is likely to have occurred between 150 and 50 bc. Without an understanding of this economic revolution, the contemporaneous political and cultural changes in Roman society cannot be fully comprehended or explained.Less
This book examines economic change in Republican Rome and Italy between the Second Punic War and the middle of the first century BC and fills a major gap by explaining how the economic world of Cicero came into being. The general proposition that the second and early first centuries bc were a time of economic change has been stated before, but there is no comprehensive study that has tackled economic development during this period. Indeed, to date, little attempt has been made to explain why, or indeed even whether, the Roman economy of the first century bc was significantly different, in qualitative or quantitative terms, from that of the late third century bc. The author argues, against the current orthodoxy among specialists, that the prime consequences of Rome’s conquest of the Mediterranean were financial. His thesis is that increased inflows of bullion, in particular silver, combined with an expansion of the availability of credit to produce significant growth in monetary liquidity. In turn, this increase in the supply and availability of money stimulated market developments, such as investment farming, trade, construction, and manufacturing. In the final chapter, the author constructs a probabilistic quantification of the Italian economy to show that real per capita economic growth is likely to have occurred between 150 and 50 bc. Without an understanding of this economic revolution, the contemporaneous political and cultural changes in Roman society cannot be fully comprehended or explained.
