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Author | : Lawrence Keppie |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0415151430 |
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Lawrence Keppie's book offers the non-specialist a comprehensive and enjoyable guide to understanding the texts of Roman inscriptions, as well as explaining the numerous different contexts in which they were produced. Every area of Roman life is covered, including: the emperor; imperial administration; local government and society; the army and the frontiers; trade, commerce and the economy; temples and altars to the gods; gravestones and tomb monuments; Christianity; and the later Roman Empire. For each inscription cited, the book provides the original Latin, an English translation and a commentary on the piece's significance. Illustrated with more than 80 photos and drawings, this is the ideal introduction to the most important source for the history and organisation of the Roman Empire.
Author | : Lawrence Keppie |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 2002-09-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134746164 |
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Lawrence Keppie's book offers the non-specialist a comprehensive and enjoyable guide to undestanding the texts of Roman inscriptions, as well as explaining the numerous different contexts in which they were produced. Every area of Roman life is covered, including: * the emperor * temples and altars to the gods * imperial administration * gravestones and tomb monuments * local government and society * the army and the frontiers * Christianity * trade, commerce and the economy * the later Roman Empire. For each inscription cited, the book provides the original Latin, an English translation and a commentary on the piece's significance. Illustrated with more than 80 photos and drawings, this is the ideal introduction to the most important source for the history and organisation of the Roman Empire.
Author | : L. J. F. Keppie |
Publisher | : B. T. Batsford Limited |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 1991-01 |
Genre | : Inscriptions, Latin |
ISBN | : 9780713456936 |
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Over 300,000 inscriptions survive from the Roman world and they provide an invaluable source of information for archaeologists and historians about the great events of that time, and about the lives and occupations of ordinary people. This is the first handbook for non-specialists who want to learn how to read these Latin inscriptions and to understand what they reveal about Roman life and history.
Author | : Christer Bruun |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 929 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0195336461 |
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The study of inscriptions is critical for anyone seeking to understand the Roman world, whether they regard themselves as literary scholars, historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, or religious scholars. The Oxford Handbook of Roman Epigraphy is the fullest collection of scholarship on the study and history of Latin epigraphy produced to date.
Author | : John Rogan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780752439525 |
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There are hundreds of inscriptions to be found on Roman tombstones in museums throughout the country. They tell us a great deal about the Romans in Britain. However, to save space the wording is full of abbreviations and the meaning of the typical inscription is lost on the average museum visitor. But fluency in Latin is not necessary to read inscriptions. By learning a few basic rules and formulae anyone can become proficient at reading the inscription and understanding what it tells us about Roman Britain.
Author | : Tyler Lansford |
Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM |
Total Pages | : 559 |
Release | : 2009-08-15 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1421403250 |
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A collection of 15 guided walking tours of the ancient Latin descriptions found throughout Rome. Rome’s oldest known Latin inscription dates from the sixth century BC; the most recent major specimen was mounted in 2006—a span of more than two and a half millennia. Remarkably, many of these inscriptions are still to be found in situ, on the walls, gates, temples, obelisks, bridges, fountains, and churches of the city. Classicist Tyler Lansford has collected some 400 of these inscriptions and arranged them—with English translations—into fifteen walking tours that trace the physical and historical contours of the city. Each itinerary is prefaced by an in-depth introduction that provides a survey of the history and topography of the relevant area of the city. The Latin texts appear on the left-hand page with English translations on the right. The original texts are equipped with full linguistic annotation, and the translations are supplemented with historical and cultural notes that explain who mounted them and why. This unique guide will prove a fascinating and illuminating companion for both sophisticated visitors to the Eternal City and armchair travelers seeking a novel perspective into Rome's rich history. “This book is wonderful. . . . Lansford’s evocative depictions of monuments, cityscape, and memorable humans have inspired me anew with the fascination of Rome.” —Mary T. Boatwright, Duke University “If this book is not slipped into many a Rome-bound suitcase, there is no justice in the world. I can think of few more enjoyable companions on a prowl through the city.” —Jane Stevenson, Times Literary Supplement (UK)
Author | : Eugene Vlemmix |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2014-12-13 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781505510904 |
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Understanding as a model Gregory Chaitin, a noted computer scientist, propounds a view that comprehension is a kind of data compression. In his essay "The Limits of Reason," he argues thatunderstanding something means being able to figure out a simple set of rules that explains it. For example, we understand why day and night exist because we have a simplemodel-the rotation of the earth-that explains a tremendous amount of data-changes in brightness, temperature, and atmospheric composition of the earth. We have compressed a large amount of information by using a simple model that predicts it. Similarly, we understand the number 0.33333... by thinking of it as one-third. The first way of representing the number requires an infinite amount of memory; but the second way can produce all the data of the first representation, but uses much less information. Chaitin argues that comprehension is this ability to compress data.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2013-10-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113503513X |
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First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Pascal Arnaud |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 471 |
Release | : 2020-09-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108787827 |
Download Roman Port Societies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this book, an international team of experts draws upon a rich range of Latin and Greek texts to explore the roles played by individuals at ports in activities and institutions that were central to the maritime commerce of the Roman Mediterranean. In particular, they focus upon some of the interpretative issues that arise in dealing with this kind of epigraphic evidence, the archaeological contexts of the texts, social institutions and social groups in ports, legal issues relating to harbours, case studies relating to specific ports, and mercantile connections and shippers. While much attention is inevitably focused upon the richer epigraphic collections of Ostia and Ephesos, the papers draw upon inscriptions from a very wide range of ports across the Mediterranean. The volume will be invaluable for all scholars and students of Roman history.
Author | : John Kenrick |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 2021-04-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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"Roman Sepulchral Inscriptions" by John Kenrick. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.