El 3 de diciembre del 63 a.C. se produjo un debate en el senado de Roma para decidir el castigo para los cinco arrestados por su implicación directa en la conjura de Catilina. Gayo Julio César y Marco Porcio Catón defendieron puntos...
En abril del año 44 a. C, Cayo Octavio, un joven de dieciocho años, desembarcaba en Brindisi y reclamaba la herencia y el nombre de su tío abuelo, Cayo Julio César. Tres lustros después, este puer, este ?chaval?, como...
Frente a la visión tradicional del último siglo de la República romana como un periodo de caótica entropía, esta obra demuestra que fue entonces cuando se plantaron los cimientos del «Estado mundo» que ser&ia...
In the century following 150 BCE, the Romans developed a coherent vision of empire and a more systematic provincial administration. The city of Rome itself became a cultural and intellectual center that eclipsed other Mediterranean cities, while ideas...
In the century following 150 BCE, the Romans developed a coherent vision of empire and a more systematic provincial administration. The city of Rome itself became a cultural and intellectual center that eclipsed other Mediterranean cities, while ideas...
The story of Claudius has been often told before. Ancient writers saw the emperor as the dupe of his wives and palace insiders; Robert Graves tried to rehabilitate him as a far shrewder, if still frustrated, politician. Josiah Osgood shifts the focus off...
In April 44 BC the eighteen-year-old Gaius Octavius landed in Italy and launched his take-over of the Roman world. Defeating first Caesar's assassins, then the son of Pompey the Great, and finally Antony and the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, he dismantled...