Roman perspectives : studies in the social, political and cultural history of the first to fifth centuries /
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| Author / Creator: | Matthews, John (John Frederick) |
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| Imprint: | Swansea : Classical Press of Wales, 2010. |
| Description: | xvi, 406 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English Latin |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8124079 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1. Gibbon and the Later Roman Empire: causes and circumstances
- 2. Power in the Classical world - a three-cornered dialogue: Thucydides, Thomas Hobbes, Tacitus
- 3. Ronald Syme, Constantine the Great and the Second Roman Revolution
- 4. Tacitus, Acta Senatus, and the inauguration of Tiberius
- 5. Six tales of the Equestrian Order
- 6. A Last Will and Testament
- 7. Travel, diplomacy and the diffusion of ideas in the Roman Mediterranean and Near East
- 8. The cultural landscape of the Bordeaux Itinerary
- 9. Ammianus and the eternity of Rome
- 10. The Letters of Symmachus
- 11. Four funerals and a wedding: this world and the next in Fourth-Century Rome
- 12. Children's games in Augustine's Confessions
- 13. Roman law and Roman history
- 14. Ammianus on Roman law and lawyers
- 15. Roman law and barbarian identity in the Late Roman West
- 16. Interpreting the Interpretationes of the Breviarium of Alaric
- 17. Macsen, Maximus, Constantine
- Bibliography
- Index