The Oxford History Of The Classical World

Vespasian (A.D. 69-79), the first Roman Emperor not to have emerged from the old urban aristocracy. Born in A.D. 9 to an equestr ...

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The Arts Of Government (By Nicholas Purcell) The Principate from Nero to Gallienus In A.D. 193 the military and political cris ...

The new cultural homogeneity found one of its most splendid expressions in the lavish beautification, from Vespasian to Antoninu ...

The concern of the Emperors for the provinces is a reflection of the new homogeneity of the Empire, not a sign of crisis. Disord ...

Bust Of Commodus In The Guise Of Hercules. The foppish face of the last Antonine Emperor (A.D. 180-92) contrasts bizarrely with ...

threat which had not been seen for generations, and when the weak Parthian state had evolved into the ferociously effective Sass ...

The City Magistrate at Home and Abroad Rome had from the earliest times enjoyed very close contacts with the Greek world, and ha ...

Inscription In Honour Of C. Minicius Italus at Aquileia (A.D. 105), the record of a distinguished equestrian career in the imper ...

This is why Rome long retained the habit of dealing with her subjects with the respect deserved by the free, and why Roman rule ...

Help For Needy Children. This relief on Trajan's Arch at Beneventum (A.D. 114) commemorates the Emperor's scheme for the upkeep ...

The Via Appia Antica, near Albano Laziale, south of Rome: the first of the great highways by which the Romans secured their mili ...

one of Rome's most successful tools. At Rome itself, the growth of the Empire had brought about indirectly an ever growing popul ...

Arches Of The Aqua Julia In Rome, one of the aqueducts on which the city's water-supply depended. Built by Agrippa in 33 B.C. to ...

administrative revolution consisted in the creation of boards of senior magistrates in departments (curae) responsible for the m ...

Camp-Building: relief on Trajan's Column in Rome (dedicated in A.D. 113). The sculptured narrative of the emperor's Dacian campa ...

strategos. Lower down the social scale the post of superintendent of engineers {praefectus fabrum) was practically non-military ...

contact between soldiers and other citizens and non-citizens was still further fostered by the direct involvement of soldiers in ...

put into effect the decisions of the Roman government? The Roman magistrates had immediate agents in their staff of strong-arm m ...

whole burden of government. Indeed some senators did feel that their dignity should be reflected in their agenda, and that they ...