Ingo Gildenhard / Ulrich Gotter / Wolfgang Havener et al. (Eds.), Augustus and the Destruction of History. The Politics of the Past in Early Imperial Rome. (Cambridge Classical Journal Supplements, Vol. 41.) Cambridge, Cambridge Philological Society 2019

2020 ◽  
Vol 311 (2) ◽  
pp. 440-442
Author(s):  
William V. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Imperial Rome ◽  
The Past

Gender, Memory, and Identity in the Roman World

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Roman History ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Imperial Rome ◽  
The Past ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Material Sources ◽  
Close Relationship

This volume approaches three key concepts in Roman history — gender, memory and identity — and demonstrates the significance of their interaction in all social levels and during all periods of Imperial Rome. When societies, as well as individuals, form their identities, remembrance and references to the past play a significant role. The aim of Gender, Memory, and Identity in the Roman World is to cast light on the constructing and the maintaining of both public and private identities in the Roman Empire through memory, and to highlight, in particular, the role of gender in that process. While approaching this subject, the contributors to this volume scrutinise both the literature and material sources, pointing out how widespread the close relationship between gender, memory and identity was. A major aim of Gender, Memory, and Identity in the Roman World as a whole is to point out the significance of the interaction between these three concepts in both the upper and lower levels of Roman society, and how it remained an important question through the period from Augustus right into Late Antiquity.

Classics and Citizenship

1920 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-81
Author(s):  
E. V. Arnold
Keyword(s):  
Classical Tradition ◽  
New World ◽  
Julius Caesar ◽  
Alexander The Great ◽  
Imperial Rome ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Foundations ◽  
Hellenistic World ◽  
The Cost ◽  
New Education

As the black clouds of war lift from the surface of the Continents of Europe and Nearer Asia, the eye looks round upon a shattered civilization. The once busy tide of labour on the field and in the factory, beneath the soil and within dock, ebbs slowly away; the accustomed rewards of toil, food, warmth and clothing, become daily more difficult of attainment. Authority trembles in its seat, and money loses its once all-powerful attraction. Inevitably the scholar recalls the tale of the Decline and Fall of the Roman-Hellenistic world, and calculates the prospect of a second millennium of darkness and suffering. And he is not unconscious that he stands himself accused of having brought about, or at least failed to avert, the doom of the nations. For, he is told, the governing classes of all the nations that clashed in mutual destructiveness were constituted of men brought up in the classical tradition, whose minds in their fresh boyhood were fed on the so-called glories of Alexander the Great and of Julius Caesar, and who sought in rivalry to win, each for his nation, the haughty supremacy of imperial Rome. And he hears the clamour of those who demand a clean sweep of the false ideals and selfish ambitions of the past, and the building upon new foundations of a world of contentment and peace, inspired by the basic conception of a citizenship in which no man shall seek his own gain at the cost of another's loss. Towards the building up of this new world, it is claimed, the study of the past can do nothing to help; by effacing itself it will cease to be a hindrance. And in response to this accusation there arise in all directions schemes for a reconstructed world, a reconstituted nation, and a new education, which shall be alike in this one point—that they take for granted the elimination of the study of antiquity and the disappearance of the atmosphere of the Humanities.

Coleridge’s Rome

2017 ◽  
pp. 267-288
Author(s):  
Jonathan Sachs
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Rate Of Change ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
Gradual Change ◽  
Slow Time ◽  
Marked Contrast ◽  
Imperial Rome ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sense Of Time ◽  
The French Revolution

Coleridge’s comparison between Napoleonic France and imperial Rome seeks to understand “revolutionary time,” that ostensibly new sense of time considered as a product of the French Revolution that sees the future as freed from past precedent. In the context of this seeming rupture between past and present, Coleridge associates the Roman transition from republic to empire with a particular pace and rate of change, and with slowness generally, a slowness that serves as a marked contrast to the apparent speed of his present moment. This chapter shows how Coleridge’s slow time is inextricable from the seeming speed and acceleration with which events were understood to develop in the aftermath of the French Revolution, in modernity. Coleridge returns processes of slow and gradual change into the French Revolution’s seeming rupture with the past.

I. The Earlier Growth of Papal Jurisdiction and Leo the Great

1932 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
J. P. Whitney
Keyword(s):  
Eleventh Century ◽  
Western World ◽  
Local Churches ◽  
Imperial Rome ◽  
The Past ◽  
Local Municipalities ◽  
Mere Existence

THE PAPACY of Leo the Great gives us a good halting place in papal history; it closes one period and leaves another to begin. The Bishop of Imperial Rome could never be a mere ecclesiastical official of the greatest city; while it had been the home of Emperors he had been often enough a trusted adviser to them; when it ceased to be their dwelling-place fresh responsibilities and new opportunities came to him. There is hardly need even to mention the change due to the foundation of a new Rome in the East, with its fresh magnificence, so largely brought from the Western capital, and with its political outlook on the richest and most important provinces. Moreover the wealth of the Roman Church had long been great and it was matched by its Christian generosity; its influence in this way had passed into a tradition, which grew steadily from the time of St Ignatius onward. In all the cities where a church had been founded there was Christian organisation, and the Roman episcopate could not but profit by the business-like methods of the imperial and civic governments. Roman ecclesiastics were naturally distinguished for the same characteristics as were the civilians. The gravitas Romana could be noted even in the eleventh century, and its mere existence would have given peculiar weight to the decisions of Roman bishops and the decrees of Roman councils. Everywhere throughout the provinces local churches and local municipalities had almost alone stood the shock of the barbarian hordes; these inheritances from the past were naturally much greater in Rome itself than elsewhere, and owing to the turns of history advantage from them fell mainly to the papacy. And for the most part the papacy did not fail the Western world; it faced its dangers and its duties boldly.

scholarly journals Pamięć o złej pamięci [Rec. Dario Calomino, Defacing the Past: Damnation and Desecration in Imperial Rome, London 2016]

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (21) ◽  
pp. 205-215
Author(s):  
Anna Anzorge-Potrzebowska
Keyword(s):  
Imperial Rome ◽  
The Past

W artykule omówiono książkę Daria Calomino Defacing the Past: Damnation and Desecration in Imperial Rome. Jej autor prześledził zmiany wizerunku rzymskich władców i osób z ich kręgu nanoszone na różne nośniki, w tym zwłaszcza na numizmaty. Zmiany te mogły być rezultatem negatywnego osądu konkretnej postaci z przyczyn ideologicznych bądź politycznych, można je więc połączyć z procesem potępiania pamięci — damnatio memoriae. W drugiej części artykułu zaprezentowano skrótowo historię badań nad tym zjawiskiem, wskazując przy tym jego aktualność i atrakcyjność poznawczą.

Libyan landscapes in history and prehistory

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 9-20
Author(s):  
Graeme Barker
Keyword(s):  
50Th Anniversary ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Chronological Order ◽  
Faunal Assemblage ◽  
Imperial Rome ◽  
The Past ◽  
Structure And Agency ◽  
Coastal Cities ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of

AbstractAs a contribution to the Society for Libyan Studies’ 50th anniversary, the paper discusses three projects in which the author has been involved, with a focus on their different contributions to our understanding of Libya's landscape prehistory and history. The deep stratigraphy of the Haua Fteah cave in three projects are described in chronological order, but they contribute in reverse order to our understanding of how Libyans have changed and been changed by their landscapes. The deep stratigraphy of the Haua Fteah cave in Cyrenaica represents an intermittent history of landscape use, and the way people dealt with climate change impacts, from some 150,000 years ago to the Graeco-Roman period. The faunal assemblage from Sidi Khrebish, Benghazi, provides insights into how Graeco-Roman city-dwellers interacted with the people of the countryside. The UNESCO Libyan Valleys Survey changes the perspective, showing how tribal people in the pre-desert were drawn into the ambit of the coastal cities and the economy of imperial Rome, before returning to semi-mobile pastoral/arable lifeways not so dissimilar to the lives of many Libyans before the oil revolution. The principal linking finding is that there are no simple stories from the past in terms of people's relations to their landscape: the mix of structure and agency embodied in the archaeological record can be a record of failures, misguided decisions, bad luck etc. as much as of successful responses and adaptations to opportunities and challenges.

scholarly journals Galen: A Thinking Doctor in Imperial Rome by Vivian Nutton

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aileen R. Das
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Ancient Medicine ◽  
Imperial Rome ◽  
Analytic Work ◽  
Open Access Publication ◽  
Creative Commons ◽  
The Past ◽  
Present Book ◽  
Life Writings

The popularity that ancient medicine and Galenic studies in particular now enjoy in anglophone scholarship is owing in no small part to the author of the monograph under review. Through his textual critical and analytic work over the past 50 years, Nutton has made the life, writings, and thought of the secondcentury ad Greek doctor Galen of Pergamum (d. ca 216) more accessible to generations of students and scholars. As Nutton admits in the introduction, the present book has the apologetic aim of defending his careerlong interest in Galen against critics who might view Galen’s obsolete medical theories and practices as evidence of a lack of intellectual worth. Reviewed by: Aileen R. Das, Published Online (2021-08-31)Copyright © 2021 by Aileen R. DasThis open access publication is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (CC BY-NC-ND) Article PDF Link: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/aestimatio/article/view/37740/28739 Corresponding Author: Aileen R. Das,University of MichiganE-Mail: [email protected]

Observations of the continuum near the galactic centre

1967 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 405
Author(s):  
F. J. Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Galactic Centre ◽  
The Past ◽  
Centre Region ◽  
The Continuum

A continuum survey of the galactic-centre region has been carried out at Parkes at 20 cm wavelength over the areal11= 355° to 5°,b11= -3° to +3° (Kerr and Sinclair 1966, 1967). This is a larger region than has been covered in such surveys in the past. The observations were done as declination scans.

The Origin of the Moon and its Relationship to the Origin of the Solar System

1962 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 133-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold C. Urey
Keyword(s):  
Solar System ◽  
The Moon ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Origin Of The Moon

During the last 10 years, the writer has presented evidence indicating that the Moon was captured by the Earth and that the large collisions with its surface occurred within a surprisingly short period of time. These observations have been a continuous preoccupation during the past years and some explanation that seemed physically possible and reasonably probable has been sought.

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