Imperium Legionis
Imperium Legionis

Author: Jose Sanchez Toledo

Publisher: Andrea Press

Published: 2005-10

Total Pages: 107

ISBN-13: 9788496527232

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A magnificent full color book on the life and times of the Roman Legions, illustrated with over 35 pieces of original color artwork and more than 100 color photographs of equipment, weapons, and reenactments. The book includes historical timelines and detailed data tables on everything from the cost of living during the second century to pay scales in the Roman army, as well as superb graphics depicting legion deployment and formation during battle. The detail in this book will be of enormous interest to the growing community of reenactors in the USA, depicting images from two famous European reenactment groups, Britain's 'Ermine Street Guard' and 'Gemini Project Reenactment Group' from the Netherlands. The reenactor photographs enable the reader to see items of Legionary equipment up close and in detail. Chapters include information on Roman legion's hierarchy structure, the legions and their men, the legions and their equipment and further chapters on strategy and tactics. A bonus is a sidebar feature depicting a fictionalized account of the life of a legionary in battle.

Plutarch’s Pragmatic Biographies
Plutarch’s Pragmatic Biographies

Author: Susan G. Jacobs

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-10-10

Total Pages: 487

ISBN-13: 9004276610

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In Plutarch’s Pragmatic Biographies, Susan Jacobs argues for a major revision in how we interpret the Parallel Lives. She integrates the existing focus on moral issues into the much broader paradigm of effective leadership found in Plutarch’s Moralia. There, in addition to moral virtue, the successful leader needed good critical judgment, persuasiveness and facility in managing alliances and rivalries. The analysis of six sets of Lives shows how Plutarch carefully portrayed Greek and Roman leaders of the past assessing situations and solving problems that paralleled those faced by his politically-active audience. By linking victories and defeats to specific strategic insights and practical skills, Plutarch created “pragmatic biographies” that could instruct statesmen and generals of every era.

Blood and Silk
Blood and Silk

Author: Carol McKay

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2010-10

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 1770671994

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FASCINATING NOVEL EXPLORES JESUS AND MARY’S CONTROVERSIAL BOND THROUGH THE LENSES OF CULTURAL, SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND HISTORICAL CONTEXTS. Mary Magdalene and Jesus of Nazareth’s mysterious, legendary connection can only be realized by revisiting their story through its Greco-Roman, Mediterranean cultural context. Early theologians censored details about theater, literature, dress, cuisine, wedding rituals, glass manufacturing, silk trade, politics and architecture of Mary Magdalene’s time when they did not fit dogma and doctrine. Cultural Historian Carol Aldenhoven McKay retrieves these lost frameworks as the story line follows McKay’s meticulous reconstruction of a formerly forgotten way of life. Blood and Silk: The Hidden Love Story of Mary Magdalene and Jesus of Nazareth is a novel fifteen years in the making.

A History of the Roman World from 30 B.C. to A.D. 138
A History of the Roman World from 30 B.C. to A.D. 138

Author: Edward T. Salmon

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-08-28

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1040035159

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A History of the Roman World from 30 B.C. to A.D. 138 (1968) is a comprehensive survey of that period of Roman history during which the Principate was established and the Pax Romana consolidated. Besides the lives of the Emperors and an account of political and military developments, it contains sections on social, economic and cultural life.

The Equestrian Officers of the Roman Imperial Army
The Equestrian Officers of the Roman Imperial Army

Author: Devijver

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 9004673180

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The papers offered here by Hubert Devijver are the narrative counterpart to his Prosopographia Militiarum Equestrium. They bring to life the careers, the social and geographical origins, the tasks and status symbols of these men as well as the monuments on which our knowledge of them is based. The Equestrian Officers and their Monuments is an original contribution for this volume. Enhanced by the indices, this book helps us understand the social class and military role of Rome's equestrian officers.

The Cult of Sol Invictus
The Cult of Sol Invictus

Author: Gaston Halsberghe

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-11-16

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 9004296255

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Preliminary material /Gaston H. Halsberghe -- THE LITERARY TEXTS /Gaston H. Halsberghe -- THE SUN CULT UP TO THE FIRST CENTURY OF THE EMPIRE /Gaston H. Halsberghe -- THE EASTERN RELIGIONS: THEIR DISTRIBUTION AND ADHERENTS /Gaston H. Halsberghe -- SOL INVICTUS ELAGABAL /Gaston H. Halsberghe -- THE CONTINUATION OF THE CULT OF SOL INVICTUS /Gaston H. Halsberghe -- THE REIGN OF AURELIAN /Gaston H. Halsberghe -- CONCLUSION /Gaston H. Halsberghe.