Néron, l’incendie de Rome et les chrétiens by Jean-Marie Pailler

“…The scapegoating of the Christians by Nero for the fire of Rome in 64 and its consequences, followed by their public execution, is not only a political and police accusation against so-called culprits ; it is also, and maybe more, a «  procuration of prodigy  » : the exceptional procuration, in the form of human sacrifice, of an exceptional prodigy. Roman history, in these related fields, held quite a few precedents, which will be examined here. …”
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Interprétation, réception et recréation des désastres militaires romains au Moyen Âge by Pierre Courroux

“…The first christian historians of the Late Antiquity provide a full reinterpretation of the Roman history, through the christian idea of the way to salvation. …”
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La correspondance d’Émile Benveniste et Roman Jakobson (1947-1968) by Chloé Laplantine, Pierre-Yves Testenoire, Emile Benveniste, Roman Jakobson

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The Poetics of Alliance in Vergil’s Aeneid by Bill Gladhill

“…The following paper argues that the series of desecrated altars that are found in the Aeneid reflects prior moments of ruptured alliances that have taken place in the epic cycle and Roman history more generally. Vergil has constructed these ruptured alliances along a number of parallel lines that focus on the various means by which the poem constructs ethnic and spatial unification. …”
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The Story about the Introduction of Idolatry in Malalas' Chronicle: the Interrelationship between Malalas, the Excerpta Salmasiana and Anacephaleosis by Krzysztof Hilman

“… The Story about the Introduction of Idolatry in Malalas' Chronicle: the Interrelationship between Malalas, the Excerpta Salmasiana and Anacephaleosis Many scholars pointed out the efforts made by Malalas, a 6th-century Byzantine chronographer, to unify Jewish, Greek and Roman history into a unitary world history. He was by no means the first to do it, but certainly his work represents a whole new level in this respect. …”
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La Crise des valeurs héroïques dans Titus Andronicus de Shakespeare by Diane Larquetoux

“…In Titus Andronicus, his first tragedy, Shakespeare already refuses a univocal interpretation of Roman history through a reflexion upon the values embodied by the characters and the drama itself. …”
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The Parthica of Pseudo-Appian by Mallan, C

“… <p style="text-align:justify;"> The Parthica found in the manuscripts of Appian's Roman History has received little attention since the work was shown to be a forgery by Schweighäuser in the late 18th Century. …”

La bataille de Carrhes (53 av. J.-C.) : de la défaite au désastre patriotique by Benoît Lefebvre

“…The battle of Carrhae is one of the most famous defeats in Roman history. However, this defeat did not really weaken Romans in the East, and the place of Carrhae in the collective memory contrasts with the real results of the fight. …”
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WILLIAM GURNEE SINNIGEN - 20TH CENTURY CLASSICIST AND ROMAN HISTORIAN: BIOGRAPHY & BIBLIOGRAPHY by Matthew Gray Marsh

“…Sinnigen was also responsible for the revision and update of Boak’s acclaimed textbook on Roman history, as well as Charles Alexander Robinson’s textbook on Ancient history.  …”
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Latin - Culture and Language in Workshops by Meris Antonio Mascarello

“…The pedagogical feasibility of the project lies on the construction of pleasurable, playing activities, using figurative characters representative of Roman History, such as the French comic book characters Asterix and Obelix, who continuously interact in the development of the historical-cultural and linguistic approach as detectives who are in constant trouble.…”
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Editors' Introduction by Angelo Antonio Cervati, Gaspare Mura, Vinicio Busacchi

“…These include analyses and reflections on the different eras of Roman history, both during the Republic and in subsequent eras, which are still of absolute relevance today. …”
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Conquête d’un milieu, adaptation à une multitude de réalités : l’exemple de la conquête romaine des espaces oasiens égyptiens by Evelyne Ferron

“…The archaeological diggings started late in this area, but because of the quantity of artefacts and documents available for the Roman period, it allows now historians specialised in Roman history to study the oases during Roman occupation. …”
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HISTORICAL RESEARCH THROUGH COIN HOARDS by Leilani Štajer

“…It analyses the problems of incorporating numismatics as a means for studying ancient Roman history. The main part of the discussion focuses on the reliability level of hoard analysis and the possible pitfalls that lead to an insufficiently critical interpretation. …”
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Václav Marek by Bohumila Mouchová, Eva Kuťáková

“…Associate Professor Vaclav Marek is one of the Czech Republic ’ s leading expertscon ancient (esp. Roman) history. However, he reached his destination field of study byca rather indirect route. …”
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THE CONCEPT OF PROPERTY IN ROMAN LAW by Nenad Stefanović

“…The significance of the Roman law in the development of the property institute, within the Law of Things, is enormous. During the long Roman history there were various forms of property, from social, public, to private. …”
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Lotte e problemi sociali in Cassio Dione by Gianpaolo Urso

“…This article studies the way in which Dio deals with social issues in his Roman History. In particular, it examines the rise of the parvenus in Severan Rome, the problem of indebtedness of individual citizens and the state, the recurring phenomenon of banditry, famines and ‘hunger revolts’. …”
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La seconde mort de l’ennemi. Dégradation de cadavre, interdiction de sépulture et destruction des restes humains dans la Rome antique by Claire Laborde-Menjaud

“…Indirect effects hit the deceased’s honor and try to ban them from the Roman history. They are reflected in the prohibition of funeral, the ban on burial and the destruction of the enemy’s portraits. …”
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Translations of state: Ancient Rome and late Elizabethan political thought by Kewes, P

“…It explains the varied and often contradictory polemical utility of Roman history in contemporary discussions in England and Europe of monarchy and imperial expansion, and then analyzes its deployment in the most daring contemporary succession tract: the Jesuit Robert Persons’s A Conference about the Next Succession to the Crowne of Ingland (1595). …”

Leyendo los Quarenta cantos de Alonso de Fuentes: materialidad y estructura de la editio princeps de 1550 by Virginie Dumanoir

“…Behind the evidence of a symbolically harmonious form that prioritizes the Bible, the examination of the structure of the Quarenta cantos reveals imbalances in favor of Roman history, and the material imperfections denounce a certain urgency, that of offering to the cultured public of mid-16th century Seville, an editorial product capable of promoting the already old but very fashionable «canto o romance», as a source for an historical and moral reflection.…”
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INTESTATE HEIR LAW ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF THE TWELVE TABLES by Danijela Kovačević

“…It was displayed in the Forum, but the original bronze plates were not preserved through the Roman history. Based on the number of quotes made by many authors, their full content can be established with great certainty. …”
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