Roman Coins and Their Values Volume 1

Roman Coins and Their Values Volume 1 PDF Author: David Sear
Publisher: Spink & Son, Ltd
ISBN: 1912667223
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 533

Book Description
The original edition of Sear's Roman Coins and Their Values was published by Seaby thirty-six years ago and has been through four revisions (1970, 1974, 1981 and 1988). However, the publication of the 'Millennium Edition' of this popular work makes a radical departure from previous editions.

Coins of the Roman Revolution, 49 BC-AD 14

Coins of the Roman Revolution, 49 BC-AD 14 PDF Author: Andrew Burnett
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
ISBN: 1910589942
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 257

Book Description
Coins of the best-known Roman revolutionary era allow rival pretenders to speak to us directly. After the deaths of Caesar and Cicero (in 44 and 43 BC) hardly one word has been reliably transmitted to us from even the two most powerful opponents of Octavian: Mark Antony and Sextus Pompeius - except through coinage and the occasional inscription. The coins are an antidote to a widespread fault in modern approaches: the idea, from hindsight, that the Roman Republic was doomed, that the rise of Octavian-Augustus to monarchy was inevitable, and that contemporaries might have sensed as much. Ancient works in other genres skilfully encouraged such hindsight. Augustus in the Res Gestae, and Virgil in Georgics and Aeneid, sought to flatten the history of the period, and largely to efface Octavian's defeated rivals. But the latter's coins in precious metal were not easily recovered and suppressed by Authority. They remain for scholars to revalue. In our own age, when public untruthfulness about history is increasingly accepted - or challenged, we may value anew the discipline of searching for other, ancient, voices which ruling discourse has not quite managed to silence. In this book eleven new essays explore the coinage of Rome's competing dynasts. Julius Caesar's coins, and those of his `son' Octavian-Augustus, are studied. But similar and respectful attention is given to the issues of their opponents: Cato the Younger and Q. Metellus Scipio, Mark Antony and Sextus Pompeius, Q. Cornificius and others. A shared aim is to understand mentalities, the forecasts current, in an age of rare insecurity as the superpower of the Mediterranean faced, and slowly recovered from, division and ruin.

Roman Coins and Public Life Under the Empire

Roman Coins and Public Life Under the Empire PDF Author: George M. Paul
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472108756
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
Opens windows into imperial policy and artistic taste

Imperial Ideals in the Roman West

Imperial Ideals in the Roman West PDF Author: Carlos F. Noreña
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107005086
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 479

Book Description
This book shows how the circulation of ideals associated with the Roman emperor generated ideological unification among aristocracies and reinforced Roman power.

Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome

Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome PDF Author: Lesley Adkins
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 0816074828
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 465

Book Description
Describes the people, places, and events of Ancient Rome, describing travel, trade, language, religion, economy, industry and more, from the days of the Republic through the High Empire period and beyond.

Encyclopædia Britannica

Encyclopædia Britannica PDF Author: Colin Macfarquhar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 416

Book Description

Ancient Coins of the Graeco-Roman World

Ancient Coins of the Graeco-Roman World PDF Author: Colin M. Kraay
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889201307
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 327

Book Description
Revised versions of papers presented at the Nickle Conference, held in the Nickle Arts Museum of the University of Calgary, Oct. 19-23, 1981.
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