Format:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
eHRAF World Cultures
Content:
This collection of fifteen documents centers primarily on the city of Rome, and secondarily on the Roman Empire at the height of the imperial period. All documents are in English (and some are also in Latin). Most focus on the first century AD, particularly from the death of Augustus in 14 AD to the accession of Trajan in 98 AD, with less emphasis on the principate of Augustus itself and on the period of 99-192 AD. The most comprehensive studies for an overall understanding of Imperial Roman history and ethnography are: Carcopino, Rostovtsev, Lewis and Reinhold, and Pellisson. Both Carcopino and Pellisson are chiefly concerned with the daily life of the citizens of Rome, while Rostovtsev deals with the social and economic history of the empire, and Lewis and Reinhold with imperial policies and administration, economic life, society and culture, life in the municipalities and provinces, the Roman army, law, and religion (particularly with the rise and eventual triumph of Christianity). The works by Columella present one of the most comprehensive and systematic of all treatises by a Roman writer on agricultural affairs and animal husbandry. Loane presents a detailed study of the provisioning of the city of Rome (50 BC-200 AD), including data on various aspects of trade, manufacturing, and other associated commercial activities. Rivenburg gives an account of what Seneca thought about the fashionable life and manners of this day (i. e., 35-65 AD). Tanzier, an archaeologist, attempts to study the life of the common people of Pompeii as revealed through their graffiti, friezes, and wall paintings which were preserved in the ashes resulting from the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD. The documents by Pliny the Elder are all from his Natural History, and deal with ethnometeorology and ethnogeography, ethnosociology, ethnopsychology and ethoanatomy, the medicinal use of plants, and a study of metals, minerals and a history of art
Note:
Culture summary: Imperial Romans - John Beierle - 2009 -- - Daily life in ancient Rome: the people and the city at the height of the empire - Jérôme Carcopino ; edited with bibliography and notes by Henry T. Rowell ; translated from the French by E. O. Lorimer - 1940 -- - The social and economic history of the Roman Empire - By M. Rostovtzeff - 1926 -- - Roman civilization: Sourcebook II : the empire - Edited and with an introduction and notes by Naphtali Lewis and Meyer Reinhold - 1966 -- - On agriculture: in three volumes : I. Res Rustica I-IV - Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella - 1960 -- - On agriculture: in three volumes : II. Res Rustica V-IX - Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella - 1968 -- - On agriculture and trees: in three volumes : III, Res Tustica X-XII, De Arboribus - Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella - 1968 --
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- Industry and commerce of the city of Rome (50 B.C. - 200 A.D.) - by Helen Jefferson Loane - 1938 -- - Fashionable life in Rome as protrayed by Seneca - [by] Marjorie Josephine Rivenburg - 1939 -- - The common people of Pompeii: a study of the graffiti - by Helen H. Tanzer - 1939 -- - Natural history in ten volumes: Volume I. Praefatio, Libri I, II - Pliny [Gaius Plinius Secundus] - 1967 -- - Natural history in ten volumes: Volume II. Libri III-VII - Pliny [Gaius Plinius Secundus] - 1969 -- - Natural history in ten volumes: Volume VI. Libri XX-XXIII - Pliny [Gaius Plinius Secundus] - 1969 -- - Natural history in ten volumes: Volume VII. Libri XXIV-XXVII - Pliny [Gaius Plinius Secundus] - 1966 -- - Natural history in ten volumes: Volume IX. Libri XXXIII-XXXV - Pliny [Gaius Plinius Secundus] - 1968 -- - Roman life in Pliny's time - by Maurice Pellison ; translated from the French by Maud Wilkinson ; with an introduction by Frank Justus Miller - 1897
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Römisches Reich
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Kultur
Author information:
Rostovtzeff, Michael Ivanovitch 1870-1952
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Carcopino, Jérôme 1881-1970
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Columella, Lucius Iunius Moderatus ca. 1. Jh.
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Plinius Secundus, Gaius 23-79
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