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The history of Rome has long been narrow and one-sided, essentially a history of The Doing of Important Things, and as far as Roman historians have been concerned, women don't make that history. From Romulus through "the political stab-fest of the late Republic, and then on to all the emperors, Roman historians may deign to give you a wife or a mother to show how bad things become when women get out of control, but history is more than that. Emma...
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"Living in ancient Rome was one of the most intense experiences in human history. It was also superbly and vividly recorded by Rome's historians and poets, who were acutely aware of the seething and voluptuous nature of the city that ruled the known world. Populus takes the reader on a compelling journey through the landscape of politics, crime, domestic life, faith, sex, entertainment, cuisine, disease, and inequality experienced daily by Roman people...
3) The weeds
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"Two women botanists, connected across time, confront desire, ambition, and the seeming inevitability of violence"--
"A Mississippi woman pushes through the ruin of the Roman Colosseum, searching for plants. She has escaped her life, signed up to catalog all the species growing in this place. Crawling along the stones, she wonders how she has landed here, a reluctant botanist amid a snarl of tourists in comfortable sandals. She hunts for a scientific...
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Political and philosophical commentaries on the republic of ancient Rome from the Renaissance author of The Prince.
In Discourses, Italian statesman, philosopher, and writer Niccolò Machiavelli offers a wide-ranging analysis of the democratic underpinnings of the Roman Republic, based on the epic history written by Roman scholar Titus Livy.
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""Richly evocative of the charms and contradictions of Italy. Brava!"-Chris Pavone, New York Times bestselling author What if you found yourself in the middle of a war armed only with lipstick and a sense of humor? Abandoned as a child in Los Angeles in 1931, dust bowl refugee Sally Brady convinces a Hollywood movie star to adopt her, and grows up to be an effervescent gossip columnist secretly satirizing Europe's upper crust. By 1940 saucy Sally...
6) Messalina: empress, adulteress, libertine : the story of the most notorious woman of the Roman world
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The story of Messalina, third wife of the emperor Claudius and one of the most notorious women to have inhabited the Roman world. The image of the empress Messalina as a ruthless, sexually insatiable schemer, derived from the work of Roman historians such as Tacitus and Suetonius, has taken deep root in the Western imagination. The stories they told about her included nightly visits to a brothel and a twenty-four-hour sex competition with a prostitute....
7) Ciao for now
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Fashion means everything to Violet Luciano; so does finishing design school. When she lands a summer internship at an up-and-coming fashion brand in Rome, she knows she's got to bring her A game. The interns will be competing against each other: whoever creates the best fashion design will be offered a job at a New York label. Violet is at the top of her class, but she's one of the only students who's approaching thirty. Chasing her dream has left...
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Thirty-six lectures on the visual nature of ancient Rome and how it was able to so successfully communicate its civic and cultural values, or project a knowledge of Roman power, to every corner of the realm. Learn how Rome communicated in visually symbolic ways, gain insight into how similar tools are used today, and hone your ability to see them at work in the visual symbols that are part of government, the military, religion, and just about every...
11) Disobedient
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A riveting novel based on the life of Artemisia Gentileschi—the greatest female painter of the Renaissance—as she forges her own destiny in a world dominated by the will of men.
This is the ring that you gave me, and these are your promises.
A young woman is put on trial. She has accused her painting teacher of the darkest betrayal -- he accuses her of being an immoral liar. What really happened, and why will this trial scandalise seventeenth-century...
12) Fatal legacy
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"Flavia Albia, daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, has taken over her father's business as a private informer. She only has two hard and fast rules - avoid political cases and family cases because nothing good comes of either of them. Unfortunately, since Albia isn't good at avoiding either, it's really more of a guideline. So when her Aunt Junia demands Albia track down a couple of deadbeats who owe her money, it's an offer Albia can't refuse. It turns...
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Get the Summary of Adrian Keith Goldsworthy's Caesar in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Adrian Goldsworthy's "Caesar" chronicles the rise of Julius Caesar against the backdrop of the late Roman Republic. Rome's political system, designed to prevent power concentration, began to show cracks as wealth disparities grew among senators due to overseas conquests. Military reforms by Tiberius Gracchus and Caius Marius,...
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"Te esperaré, hermana", escribió, de su puño y letra, Claudia Severa a su amiga Sulpicia Lepidina, en la invitación a la celebración de su cumpleaños en un fuerte perdido junto al muro de Adriano. Son los suyos dos nombres de los muchos que mencionará este libro. Nombres de esclavas o de emperatrices, de niñas o de ancianas, de trabajadoras o de sacerdotisas, célebres algunos, pero casi desconocidos la mayoría. Las mujeres romanas, como...
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From 27 B.C. to A.D. 117, the Roman dreams of boundless empire began to falter. The very size of their conquests made them hard to manage, and the Caesars, also had to accept the scale and intractability of the problems posed by the barbarians. The period covered by the book is one of great change and the opening of a new era. For the once mighty Romans, this was a time when power was passing; for the barbarians it was the late Iron Age: a time of...
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Throughout history, the Roman Empire has been regarded as an example of both power and success. Its most influential leaders were able to create an empire that would last for centuries, and their methods of communication, negotiation, and government have been studied and analyzed for centuries. In this book, we will explore the ways in which these leaders used their power to influence the world around them, and how their strategies still shape the...
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The political transformation that took place at the end of the Roman Republic was a particularly rich area for analysis by the era's historians. Major narrators chronicled the crisis that saw the end of the Roman Republic and the changes that gave birth to a new political system. These writers drew significantly on the Roman idea of virtus as a way of interpreting and understanding their past. Tracing how virtus informed Roman thought over time, Catalina...
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Las Cartas de Plinio el Joven, también llamadas las Epístolas de Plinio el Joven, han sido objeto de estudio durante siglos, ya que las mismas ofrecen una mirada única e intima a la vida cotidiana de los romanos del siglo I d. C. A través de sus cartas el escritor y abogado romano Plinio el Joven (cuyo nombre completo era Cayo Plinio Cecilio Segundo) debate sobre cuestiones filosóficas y morales; pero a su vez también discute sobre asuntos cotidianos...
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The Crisis of Catiline situates students in Rome in 63 BCE during a time of urban and rural tumult, economic instability, sensational trials, and electoral misconduct. Lucius Sergius Catilina (or "Catiline"), a charismatic and scandal-plagued noble, has proposed radical reforms that are favored by the urban and rural poor. But he is despised and feared by the senatorial elites who have placed their hopes in the hands of an immigrant to Rome, the brilliant...
20) Hadrian's Wall
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Hadrian's Wall, a marvel of ancient Roman engineering, was constructed during the reign of Emperor Hadrian in the early 2nd century AD. This monumental fortification spanned the width of northern Britain, from the banks of the River Tyne in the east to the Solway Firth in the west. Its purpose was to mark the northern boundary of the Roman Empire and to regulate trade and immigration while providing defense against invading forces from the north.
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