The Oxford History Of The Classical World
nature, for instance at Ostia at the mouth of the Tiber or at Minturnae at the mouth of the Liris. But those possessed of Roman ...
Centuriation In The Po Valley. The modern road and field system in this air photograph taken in 1945 clearly reveals its origins ...
On one hand, then, there was an almost violent expression of Roman control of the land; but on the other hand, the pattern of Ro ...
Latin territory in the south, leaving a few barely viable Etruscan enclaves, such as Tarquinii or Vulci. In the north, Etruscan ...
Dish In Genucilia Ware, Rome's answer to Greek-style painted pottery (fourth century B.C.). Both the female head wearing a diade ...
first invasion from overseas. We have already seen that the Greek cities of the south were faced from the fifth century onwards ...
sheer greed played a large part in swaying opinion. The action that led to war was to send an army to protect Messana, in the ha ...
approval of the gods was necessary and that with it Rome could not fail. The third century was not only, as Polybius observed, t ...
Meanwhile, however, the overseas wars which followed the Second Punic War were transforming the social and economic fabric of It ...
rear) is the next oldest, probably dedicate to Juturna in 241 BC. The circular temple B, in the middle, is thought to be that of ...
What is clear, however, is that Ti. Gracchus' attempt to resume public land in the hands of the rich in order to distribute it t ...
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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