Social History Archive
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Toga and Dagger: Espionage in Ancient Rome
Posted on May 21, 2012 | No CommentsAnient Rome is remembered as one of the greatest military powers in history, its fame derived from the fearsome reputation of the empire's legionnaires. Lost in the telling, however, is the important role that espionage played in Rome's ascent to empire. -
Byzantine Intelligence Service
Posted on May 20, 2012 | No CommentsThe basis on which the successful administration of the Roman Empire at its zenith was built was the cursus publicus, or the state post. This organization also made the service of intelligence more effective. -
Ritual Dining, Drinking, and Dedication at Stymphalos: A Case Study in the Influence of “Popular” Culture on Religion
Posted on May 19, 2012 | No CommentsThe excavated site of Stymphalos is located in a valley just south of Mount Kyllene in Arcadia on the modern shores of lake Stymphalos. Corinth lies approximately 35 kilometers to the northeast of Stymphalos and Sikyon is positioned about 20 kilometers to the north. -
Wine and Wealth in Ancient Italy
Posted on May 3, 2012 | No CommentsThis account of viticulture in Italy during the period from the Punic Wars to the crisis of the third century AD is written in the conviction that the 'economic' history of the ancient world will remain unacceptably impoverished if it is written in isolation from the social and cultural history of the same period. -
An Introduction to the Origin of Caste System in India
Posted on April 29, 2012 | No CommentsThe life of the Hindus, through the centuries, has been moulded by four factors religion, village, caste and family. -
Competition Between Public and Private Revenues in Roman Social and Political History (200-49 B.C.)
Posted on April 25, 2012 | No CommentsI argue that the creation of a profitable empire allowed the ruling elite to end their reliance on domestic taxation to fund state activity, and that Rome's untaxed citizens were effectively disenfranchised as a result. -
“Sine legem fide”: clientage in ancient Rome from the Punic Wars to the Social War
Posted on April 13, 2012 | No CommentsThe present study wall show that in the Roman Republic clientage was vital to society, business, and politics through comparisons of the ancient sources with examples drawn from anthropology, history, and political science. -
Social status of elite women of the new kingdom of ancient Egypt: a comparison of artistic features
Posted on April 4, 2012 | No CommentsThis study concludes that the status of elite women in the New Kingdom was both significantly different and exalted in comparison with the status of their counterparts during earlier dynasties. -
The Destiny of The World: A Study on the End of The Universe in The Light of Ancient Egyptian Texts
Posted on April 4, 2012 | No CommentsDid the ancient Egyptians have any notion about the end of the world ? Did they make up as complicated and rich myths about this notion as the ones they composed about the cosmogony and the beginning of the world ? The answer to the first question is easy:yes,the ancient Egyptians had, like contemporary people, a strong belief in the impermanence cf the world. -
Hospitium and Political Friendship in the Late Republic
Posted on April 4, 2012 | No CommentsDuring the Republic, the relationship between Roman senators and peregrines, both individuals and communities, was regulated especially by hospitium.