Essays on Roman Society

Italian scholars attending the one American university “Chairs of Wisdom” have presented different volumes of nostalgic stories that reflect the history and the events of ancient histories of Italy. One of these scholars has had a great success with his book on the popular stories that have interested readers around the world. Michael Parenti is one of the renegade Italian American scholars whose works have caused much controversy in the literary world. He writes of the spell-binding moments of history and the popular illusions of the reality of the events that happened in the social history of ancient. The ‘ ...

We live in a world where toys are color-coded blue for boys and pink for girls. TV commercials for certain products food included are focused on men on one hand and others target women. Women have been cultured to be fond of “chick flicks” which are predominantly romantic comedies whereas men are meant to watch action movies and soccer. Roles and plays have been highly gendered. These cultural assumptions have been in existence since time immemorial. Therefore, the thesis by which this paper is guided is two-fold: there is a direct causative relationship between the cultural assumptions on gender ...

INTRODUCTION

When the average person thinks of ancient Rome the first thoughts that often come to mind are the immense columns and marble architecture synonymous with the era, they imagine the power and wealth of one of the most successful Empires of its time or they see it is as the modern epicenter of, the Christian religious denomination, Catholicism for the bulk of the world. However, the history of Rome is not just a story of arts, architecture, wealth, decadence or religious locale; it is also a story of immense wars, dictatorships, religious intolerance, mass conquests, a number of bloody wars, shifting religious ...

Literature

In order to understand the role of women in Victoria’s England, it would be of interest to study the role of women during the Roman Empire. Why this is important, is because, there is a lot of similarities in the way England was ruled in comparison to Rome. The Roman society was undoubtedly dominated by men, and this is evident by the names of great leaders such as Julius Caesar, and Augustus. The Roman Catholic Church too had a huge role to play in the social and cultural life of the people of Rome. Despite evidences drawn from Roman history, ...

In the movie "Gladiator," Maximus goes through many different roles. Through it all, he remains a leader, although in different incarnations. At the time of this quote, Maximus is ascending the ranks of gladiator fame. Still in the Zanzibar province, he slaughters his way through four other gladiators in casual fashion. To a man of Maximus' martial skill, honed in the Legions, the vaudevillian fight style of the gladiator is no challenge to his compact, efficient technique. At the end of the fight, in a show of disgust, Maximus hurls his gladius at the VIP box of the arena, and then ...

The assassination of Julius Caesar was the result of a conspiracy group of senators, led by Gaius Cassius Longinus and Marcus Junius Brutus. The conspirators wanted to overthrow Julius Caesar, who during the Civil War evolved from a military commander in the sole ruler of Rome. The conspirators killed Caesar March 15, 44 BC, which led to another civil war and eventually to the establishment of the rule of Caesar's heir Octavian as a Roman emperor. The reign of Caesar as dictator of the Roman Republic lasted for more than four years, and the Senate had no real power. However, the authority ...

The Roman law code was written by the Romans about 450 B.C. The code targeted all the romans defining the privileges between the Patricians and the Plebeians. Such is Evidence by table VIII (4) that states that, “If a patron shall have devised any deceit against his client, let him be accursed” (Oliver Thatcher, 1901). From this premise, it is evident that all the Romans were the targeted audiences since the code was guiding the day to day interaction of the Romans. The main story line includes the court procedures and trials, debt collection, rights of family’s heads ...

The Bluest Eye: Structure vs. Agency

Toni Morrison’ novel, ‘The Bluest Eye,’ looks at the life of black families living in Ohio in the early 1940s. That was the time when many Black families; whose ancestors were brought from Africa to work in fields by Whites here, had made America their home and sought to live the American dream of freedom and happiness. ‘Bluest Eye,’ as the name suggests, is the color of the eyes of Pecola Breedlove, the young daughter of Pauline and Cholly, who like any other child her age, wanted to live a life of freedom and fun. However, that was not to ...

Rome is one of the most ancient cultures known to exist in the world. The culture covered over a certain piece of geographical area, which today is known as Italy. Powerful Romans in the system of government ruled the ancient Rome. Rome was the largest city of the time. It was high populated carrying a large population of close to one million people. There were many magnificent building in the Rome city. Life in Rome revolved around the city ("Roman society” 2011). Government buildings were in the Rome centre as well as the market place. In the Roman Empire, slaves were ...

Mesopotamia is believed to be a land that’s between two rivers. Ancient Mesopotamia was occupied by different people with different cultures, wealth, gender, and religion. This therefore, brought about conflicts and warfare because of inequality. It is a fact that ancient Mesopotamia was growing and due to trade others became wealthy while others remained poor. The laws were made by the elite who made it possible for it to benefit them. In the laws when a poor person commits the same crime as the rich person they will be given a harsher punishment compared to the rich person. The education system was ...

CLAS 2095 EL 10

Dr. S.Katary

Introduction Ancient Rome has several rituals that have served as phenomenal aspects of its era as it flourished. Those have given vibrant color to the characterization of Roman life at that time, as it stood as among the most interesting points of study in the history of humankind. Among those who have partaken in the rituals of the empire were the Vestal Virgins (Vestals), who were women priestesses heralded for their virtues as they present themselves to Roman society as among its institutional characters. This study seeks to present information on the Vestals ...

It is a remarkable fact of Roman civilization that it did not introduce a system of coinage until the late third century B.C., coinciding approximately with the Republic’s final defeat of the Carthaginians. Romans had used crude bronze fragments and “ramo secco” bars during the fourth, and up to the late third century (Burnett 15). Many historians have theorized that the adoption of a formal coinage system was a result of Roman interaction with the Greek world, Rome having traded intensively with the people of Magna Graecia, the Greeks of southern Italy, during this period (Burnett 15). As the Greeks knew, the ...

Introduction

The legacy of the Roman empire means the combination of cultural attributes, religion, and believes as well as the technological advancements that came as a result of the ancient mighty Roman empire that have been passed to the present civilizations in western Europe and across the world1. In my view, the most obvious influence of the Roman Empire that is visible today is the language Latin. Even though Latin is an extinct language, its influences in the contemporary are enormous. Latin language did not only influence culture but also science in the present world. Even as the Roman Empire collapsed, ...

Roman Historiography

One of the ways to understand a civilization is to explore the way it was writing about itself and how viewed particular events. In this regard, exploration of historiography of specific civilization is self-justified. On the other hand, exploration of historiographic evolution also contributes to comprehension of tendencies in the development of human civilization in general and understanding of how history had evolved since the ancient times. In the framework of all mentioned above, the main aim of the present essay is to follow the evolution of historiography in the Ancient Rome and its contribution to the early scholarship in ...