Politics Archive
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Biography of Titus Labienus, Caesar’s Lieutenant in Gaul
Posted on March 22, 2012 | No CommentsThe primary interest that scholars have in the life of Titus Labienus concerns his reasons for leaving Caesar after his service in Gaul to Caesar during the near-decade of the fifties. -
The Hellenistic Royal Court: Court Culture, Ceremonial and Ideology in Greece, Egypt and the Near East, 336-30 BCE
Posted on March 18, 2012 | No CommentsThere are two reasons why the Hellenistic royal court may be deemed an important subject. First, in the Hellenistic Age the foundations were laid for the development of the royal court in later history, both in Christian Europe and the Islamic East. Second, because the court was the apex of political power in the Hellenistic world. -
Heirs and Rivals to Nero
Posted on March 11, 2012 | No CommentsBut it is not without interest to trace Nero's presumable hopes and expectations of an heir through his successive arrangements to provide one. -
Carthage: The Lost Mediterranean Civilisation
Posted on March 7, 2012 | No CommentsLittle remains of the great North African empire that was Rome's most formidable enemy, because, as Richard Miles explains, only its complete annihilation could satisfy its younger rival. -
Peregrini, Barbari, and Cives Romani: Concepts of Citizenship and the Legal Identity of Barbarians in the Later Roman Empire
Posted on February 29, 2012 | No CommentsIt may be, in fact, that the closest the world ever came to implementing a form of world citizenship was during the later Roman Empire. Beginning in the early third century, the Roman government worked to maximize the number of persons to whom Roman ius civile, the law of Roman citizens, applied. -
Nero Fiddled While Rome Burned
Posted on February 26, 2012 | No CommentsCuriosity concerning the origin and development of the expression 'Nero fiddled while Rome burned' leads to an investigation which has traversed the fields of History, Philology, Literature, and Music. -
The Roman Revolution: Could the Embrace of Rationalist Principles Have Saved the Republic?
Posted on February 20, 2012 | No CommentsWhat does the episode known as the ‘Roman Revolution’, typically conceived as covering the years between the tribunate of Tiberius Gracchus in 133 BCE and the Battle of Actium in 31 BCE, tell us about this dispute. -
SPECIALIZATION – THE HIDDEN FEATURE OF THE ROMAN PROVINCIAL ADMINISTRATION
Posted on February 12, 2012 | No CommentsThe interest of historians for the Roman civil service began in the late 19th century with the so- called prosopographical works. Initially, they presented only chronological lists of the provincial governors (legati Augusti pro praetore provinciae) or lists of the army commanders (legati legionis). -
Rites of Passage and their Role in the Socialization of the Spartan Youth
Posted on February 12, 2012 | No CommentsEducation was obligatory and uniform for all Spartans, a uniformity that enforced an important institutional restriction on the display of wealth, in contrast to other Greek city-states, in particular Athens. -
Coinage and Sulla’s Retirement
Posted on February 12, 2012 | No CommentsSulla's retirement into private life in 79 BC has provoked numerous explanations, including illness, apathy towards Rome's future and the intended act as a result of the completion of his work.