War with Clodius Albinus
September 27, 2007
Septimius Severus’ victory over his eastern rival Pescennius Niger opened a new opportunity to cement himself as sole emperor and his family as an imperial dynasty. Despite an earlier arrangement with the governor of Britain Clodius Albinus, to keep him from also making a claim for the throne, Severus initiated a policy to establish connections and continuity between himself and imperial predecessors...
Civil War with Clodius Albinus
Rome and the Black Sea Region
September 19, 2007
A review by Andrew Dalby...
Let’s face it, there are problems with this book. Does the title adequately represent its contents? No. Does it cover an easily definable subject? No. Is it totally without merit? Again, no.
I can’t review the book as a whole, because there is no whole. So I’ll review the papers separately. And I’ll start with the best, the star performance, the one that some on this site will devour like a juicy steak.
‘The Roman army as a factor of Romanisation in the North-Eastern part of Moesia Inferior’ by Liviu Petculescu ... perhaps you think I’m joking. I’m not, I promise. If only this paper were longer, I’d tell you to buy the book for it alone. With a name like Liviu, this author was predestined to be a classicist. In fact he is a specialist in Roman Dacia, and his doctorate, in 1999, was for a dissertation on Roman armour as used in the province. Now he is at the Muzeul National de Istorie at Bucharest and he is prominent in Roman archaeological work...
Read the full review of Rome and the Black Sea Region by Tonnes Bekker-Nielsen (editor)
Legal and Institutional Chronology of the Roman Republic
September 06, 2007
This comprehensive list of Roman laws and constitutional policy details the legal history of the Republic from its founding to its fall. Organized by era and in chronological order, over 200 entries provide the year, type of policy (rogatio, lex, decretum, etc.) and a detailed summary of it's purpose. Each entry is fully attributed to ancient source material.
Legal and Institutional Chronology of the Roman Republic
Additionally, we've provided a simple Roman Law Glossary as an aid in understanding some basic terminology.