The Oxford History Of The Classical World

Italy; Cn. Pompeius Strabo, the father of Magnus, gave the status of a Latin colonia to those communities in the Po valley and L ...

Tombstone From S. Angelo In Formis, near Capua (first half of first century B.C.), a good example of funerary sculpture in late- ...

The Expansion Of Rome (By Elizabeth Rawson) The Conquests of Rome Polybius thought that no one could be so worthless or indole ...

'Second', and so on). There was no war with Egypt, the third of the great kingdoms that had emerged after Alexander's death, but ...

However, towards the end of the second century Rome met with a number of defeats at the hands of barbarian enemies, notably Jugu ...

letters throw much light on his own period, and incidentally on earlier ones. (A fuller account of the Roman historians is given ...

vintage. To some extent the literary sources can be supplemented, especially in the Greek world, where there was a tradition of ...

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Fragments Of A Bronze Calculator recovered from a shipwreck off Anticythera, south of Greece. Part of a consignment of metal-wor ...

apart from the old alliance with isolated Massilia, and was uninterested in the East: during the Hannibalic War her treaty with ...

fighting for a triumph', and he was himself shamefacedly eager for one. Admittedly, generals were often also anxious to end a wa ...

from Campania and elsewhere may have sometimes begun operations abroad by investing the profits of war. Pompeii documents the pr ...

male bust representing the Spirit of the Roman People (Genius Populi Romani). The growing evidence for commerce after the Hannib ...

corn to Rome; however, till the city became dependent on Egypt in the imperial age, the East was not often drawn on. Private mer ...

The Treasury became increasingly dependent on foreign revenues. At first Rome did not, it seems, always impose taxes, but just d ...

nations, and cities', even if technically 'free', were an integral part of the Empire. Some kings already claimed in the second ...

Some peoples, too, were attached to their native rulers and better left to them. And where the Greek cities were concerned, Rome ...

oligarchic, as they tended to become; but we have on stone a letter from a governor of Macedon to a Peloponnesian city, of the l ...

to deal with the ringleaders of a revolutionary movement: two of them have been condemned to death and a third sent to stand tri ...