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The Culture of the Roman PlebsFebruary 24, 2010The Culture of the Roman Plebs by Nicholas Horsfall delves into the everyday life of the common man in Ancient Rome. What did he do for entertainment? What songs did he sing? What plays did he watch? What did he talk about at the tavern? These are but a few questions that the author proposes to answer. Surnames of the LiviiFebruary 16, 2010The Livii were a plebeian gens which attained noble status and prominence as early as the 4th century BCE, when the first of the Livii Drusi (who acquired his surname due to legendary single combat with a Gallic champion) was made Master of the Horse for the dictator Lucius Papirius Cursor (324 BCE). Barely a generation following this, the first of the Livii to attain the consulship was Marcus Livius Denter (302 BCE)... Great Battles of the Hellenistic WorldFebruary 08, 2010As all at UNRV know, I`m more of a philhellene than a romanophile even though I did study both civilizations during my studies and had more courses on the latter than on the former. I did also concentrate on warfare, a topic which of course would lead to some cross-civilization studies, especially around the 2nd and 1st century B.C. In the book currently under review this experiences is quite helpful because it does examine, among other, fights which happened between the two cultures, be it the campaigns of Pyrrhos of Epeiros or the battles against the Macedonian and Seleucid forces... |
