The Science of Roman History

Author: Walter Scheidel
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400889731
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279

Book Description
How the latest cutting-edge science offers a fuller picture of life in Rome and antiquity This groundbreaking book provides the first comprehensive look at how the latest advances in the sciences are transforming our understanding of ancient Roman history. Walter Scheidel brings together leading historians, anthropologists, and geneticists at the cutting edge of their fields, who explore novel types of evidence that enable us to reconstruct the realities of life in the Roman world. Contributors discuss climate change and its impact on Roman history, and then cover botanical and animal remains, which cast new light on agricultural and dietary practices. They exploit the rich record of human skeletal material--both bones and teeth—which forms a bio-archive that has preserved vital information about health, nutritional status, diet, disease, working conditions, and migration. Complementing this discussion is an in-depth analysis of trends in human body height, a marker of general well-being. This book also assesses the contribution of genetics to our understanding of the past, demonstrating how ancient DNA is used to track infectious diseases, migration, and the spread of livestock and crops, while the DNA of modern populations helps us reconstruct ancient migrations, especially colonization. Opening a path toward a genuine biohistory of Rome and the wider ancient world, The Science of Roman History offers an accessible introduction to the scientific methods being used in this exciting new area of research, as well as an up-to-date survey of recent findings and a tantalizing glimpse of what the future holds.

The Science of Roman History

Author: Walter Scheidel
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691162565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278

The Science of Roman History

Author: Walter Scheidel
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691195986
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278

Book Description
With state-of-the-art contributions by scholars who are leaders in their respective fields, this edition describes how the integration of natural and human archives is changing the entire historical enterprise.

Aspects of the Study of Roman History

Author: Thomas Spencer Jerome
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rome
Languages : en
Pages : 456

Book Description

What Did the Romans Know?

Author: Daryn Lehoux
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226471144
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
Lehoux draws upon a wide range of sources from what is unquestionably the most prolific period of ancient science, from the first century BC to the second century AD.

Science Education in the Early Roman Empire

Author: Richard Carrier
Publisher: Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA)
ISBN: 1634310918
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
Throughout the Roman Empire Cities held public speeches and lectures, had libraries, and teachers and professors in the sciences and the humanities, some subsidized by the state. There even existed something equivalent to universities, and medical and engineering schools. What were they like? What did they teach? Who got to attend them? In the first treatment of this subject ever published, Dr. Richard Carrier answers all these questions and more, describing the entire education system of the early Roman Empire, with a unique emphasis on the quality and quantity of its science content. He also compares pagan attitudes toward the Roman system of education with the very different attitudes of ancient Jews and Christians, finding stark contrasts that would set the stage for the coming Dark Ages.

Science Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Author: Liba Taub
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521113709
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211

Book Description
This book explores how science and mathematics were communicated in antiquity in a wide variety of texts, including poetry, letters and biographies.

The Scientist in the Early Roman Empire

Author: Richard Carrier
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781634311069
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 647

Book Description
In this extensive sequel to Science Education in the Early Roman Empire, Dr. Richard Carrier explores the social history of scientists in the Roman era. Was science in decline or experiencing a revival under the Romans? What was an ancient scientist thought to be and do? Who were they, and who funded their research? And how did pagans differ from their Christian peers in their views toward science and scientists? Some have claimed Christianity valued them more than their pagan forebears. In fact the reverse is the case. And this difference in values had a catastrophic effect on the future of humanity. The Romans may have been just a century or two away from experiencing a scientific revolution. But once in power, Christianity kept that progress on hold for a thousand years--while forgetting most of what the pagans had achieved and discovered, from an empirical anatomy, physiology, and brain science to an experimental physics of water, gravity, and air. Thoroughly referenced and painstakingly researched, this volume is a must for anyone who wants to learn how far we once got, and why we took so long to get to where we are today.

TOOLS OF THE ANCIENT ROMANS

Author: Rachel Dickinson
Publisher: Nomad Press
ISBN: 1936749114
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
STools of the Ancient Romans: A Kid’s Guide to the History and Science of Life in Ancient Rome explores the history and science of the most powerful empire the world has ever known. Through biographical sidebars, interesting facts, anecdotes, and 15 hands-on activities that put kids in ancient Roman shoes, readers will learn about Roman innovations and ideas of government, science, religion, sport, and warfare that have shaped world history and our own world view.

Jurists and Legal Science in the History of Roman Law

Author: Aldo Schiavone
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000469778
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318

Book Description
This book provides a new approach to the study of the History of Roman Law. It collects the first results of the European Research Council Project, Scriptores iuris Romani - dedicated to a new collection of the texts of Roman jurisprudence, highlighting important methodological issues, together with innovative reconstructions of the profiles of some ancient jurists and works. Jurists were great protagonists of the history of Rome, both as producers and interpreters of law, since the Republican Age and as collaborators of the principes during the Empire. Nevertheless, their role has been underestimated by modern historians and legal experts for reasons connected to the developments of Modern Law in England and in Continental Europe. This book aims to address this imbalance. It presents an advanced paradigm in considering the most important aspects of Roman law: the Justinian Digesta, and other juridical late antique anthologies. The work offers an historiographic model which overturns current perspectives and makes way for a different path for legal and historical studies. Unlike existing literature, the focus is not on the Justinian Codification, but on the individualities of ancient Roman Jurists. As such, it presents the actual legal thought of its experts and authors: the ancient iuris prudentes. The book will be of interest to researchers and academics in Classics, Ancient History, History of Law, and contemporary legal studies.